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   August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community in the 20th century.

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   Aug 15, 2023 · Wilson's life is the quintessential American story, a winding tale that took him from a two-room cold-water flat in Pittsburgh to the nation's most prestigious stages. His life is full...

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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.

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   Aug 15, 2023 · 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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   Aug 7, 2023 · 6. August Wilson in 2005. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. By Dwight Garner. Aug. 7, 2023. Buy Book . When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an...

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   Feb 26, 2017 · Patti Hartigan, a former theater critic for the Boston Globe, has been signed to write the first major biography of August Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of the...

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   Who is August Wilson?

   • August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America".

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   What did August Wilson do before he died?

   • In the years after Wilson's death the 10-play cycle has been referred to as The August Wilson Century Cycle and as The American Century Cycle. Two years before his death in 2005, Wilson wrote and performed an unpublished one-man play entitled How I Learned What I Learned about the power of art and the power of possibility.

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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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   Why is August Wilson Day celebrated?

   • In 1987, St. Paul's mayor George Latimer named May 27 "August Wilson Day". He was honored because he is the only person from Minnesota to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 1990, Wilson left St. Paul after getting divorced and moved to Seattle.

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   What is Robert Wilson best known for?

   • Wilson, who died in 2005 at 60, is best known for his 10 plays (known as the “Century Cycle”) about African-American life in Pittsburgh, each set in a different decade of the 20th century. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for “Fences,” and again in 1990 for “The Piano Lesson.”

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   What chapter does August Wilson leave Pittsburgh?

   • "Chapter IX: "I Can't Take It!": August Wilson Leaves Pittsburgh". August Wilson Journal. 1. doi: 10.5195/awj.2019.26.

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   Despite illegitimacy and a mischievous, argumentative temperament, the young Frederick Kittel transformed himself into August Wilson, a library hound reader of anything and everything, determined to make his way as a writer, initially attempting poetry and subsequently trying his luck writing plays.