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   Aug 7, 2023 · This is the first major biography of Wilson, whose 10-play Century Cycle (also called the Pittsburgh Cycle) made him arguably the most important and successful playwright of the late 20th...

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   Aug 11, 2023 · Patti Hartigan’s “ August Wilson: A Life,” an invaluable and highly absorbing new biography, traces Wilson’s groundbreaking trajectory from his penurious beginnings to his death at age 60 in...

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   Aug 15, 2023 · August Wilson: A Life. Patti Hartigan. Simon and Schuster, Aug 15, 2023 - Biography & Autobiography - 544 pages. "Ever since Ma Rainey's Black Bottom captivated Broadway audiences, August...

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   The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him. August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade.

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   • Author: Patti Hartigan

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   The blurb accompanying publication of this 531-page biography of August Wilson describes the legendary writer as “the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20 th century”.

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   How old was August Wilson when he died?

   • Patti Hartigan’s “ August Wilson: A Life ,” an invaluable and highly absorbing new biography, traces Wilson’s groundbreaking trajectory from his penurious beginnings to his death at age 60 in 2005, which made the front pages of newspapers around the nation.

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   What is Patti Hartigan's new biography of August Wilson about?

   • Patti Hartigan’s new biography of August Wilson is highly informative and fluid for an unauthorized work. Hartigan’s biography is at its best in chronicling the artistic process that reshaped not only Wilson as a dramatist but also the producing structures of the American theater.

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   Did August Wilson write in restaurants?

   • August Wilson, who died in 2005, spent so much time lingering in diners that 'Writing in Restaurants' is a plausible alternative subtitle for Hartigan’s 'August Wilson: A Life'. Wilson, a large, bearded man often in tweeds and a pageboy cap, would sit in the back of diners with a cup of coffee and an overflowing ashtray.

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   Who was Robert Wilson and what was his occupation?

   • Robert Wilson was an autodidact with a darting curiosity born in Pittsburgh in 1945 to a single Black mother who raised him and his siblings largely on welfare checks. He mined the city, especially its historically African American Hill District, as if it were a coal seam, tapping a rich vein of experiences that would shape his life and work.

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   What did John Wilson write on?

   • John Wilson, a large, bearded man who often wore tweeds and a pageboy cap, would sit in the back of a diner with a cup of coffee and an overflowing ashtray. He smoked five packs a day and didn’t pause even while in the shower. He'd write on napkins or receipts, whatever was handy. He wrote one early play, “Jitney,” in an Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips.

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   How did John Wilson become a poet?

   • Wilson found his vocation as a street poet with a group of neighborhood bards known as the Centre Avenue Poets. But his voice as a writer took time to discover. He began composing verse in a flowery style, heavily influenced by Dylan Thomas and John Berryman.

   Review: Patti Hartigan's biography 'August Wilson: A Life' - Los

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    Aug 7, 2023 · Yet as Patti Hartigan writes — gloriously — in August Wilson: A Life, the first major biography of the man, Wilson’s genius was singular and his work universal, winning him two Pulitzer Prizes and 29 Tony Awards.