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2. www.nytimes.com › 2023/08/07 › booksBook Review: ‘August Wilson: A Life,’ by Patti Hartigan - The ...

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   Aug 7, 2023 · 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.”

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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...

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   April Lidinsky welcomes Aaron Nichols, Executive Director of the South Bend Civic Theatre, to discuss August Wilson: A Life, by journalist Patti Hartigan. Pl...

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   Aug 15, 2023 · The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, who 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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   Aug 7, 2023 · Book Review in Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir. August Wilson: A Life. By Patti Hartigan. Simon & Schuster. 544 pp. Reviewed by Kitty Kelley. August 7, 2023. This biography’s brilliance approaches that of its subject.

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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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   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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   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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   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.

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

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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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   When did John Wilson start his theater?

   • John Wilson was 23 years old when he and his arts-world friends decided to start their own theater, which they called Black Horizons. At that time, Baraka had founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater/School in Harlem in 1965. No one volunteered to lead it, and Wilson was chosen by default. Material was needed, and Wilson began to write it.

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   Aug 15, 2023 · Theater critic and arts reporter Hartigan makes an impressive book debut with an appreciative, well-researched biography of August Wilson (1945-2005), winner of multiple awards (including Pulitzers for Fences and The Piano Lesson and a Tony for Fences) for his plays about Black experiences in 20th-century America.