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   Introduction. August Wilson was an award-winning American playwright. He wrote plays about the Black experience in America. Early Life. August Wilson’s original name was Frederick August Kittel. He was born on April 27, 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a lively, but poor neighborhood called the Hill District.

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   Sep 28, 2024 · August Wilson was a playwright who penned an acclaimed cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about Black American life. He won Pulitzer Prizes for two of them: Fences and The Piano Lesson. Learn more about Wilson’s life and works in this article.

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   Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the fourth of six children. His father, Frederick August Kittel Sr., was a Sudeten German immigrant, who was a baker/pastry cook.

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   August Wilson is a Pulitzer Prize winning play writer, who is known to have authored the ten play series, The Pittsburgh Cycle. Read this biography to learn more about his childhood, profile, life and timeline.

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   Jan 24, 2024 · CHILDREN: Sakina Ansari. ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus. Early Life and Education. Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 27, 1945. His mother, Daisy Wilson, was...

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   Jan 28, 2015 · August Wilson (1945 – 2005) was an award-winning American playwright whose work illuminated the joys and struggles of the African-American experience in the United States during the 20th...

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   Who was August Wilson?

   • August Wilson was an award-winning American playwright. He wrote plays about the Black experience in America. August Wilson’s original name was Frederick August Kittel. He was born on April 27, 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a lively, but poor neighborhood called the Hill District.

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   When did August Wilson write a play?

   • Famed playwright August Wilson wrote his first play, Jitney, in 1979. Fences earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 1987. Wilson won another Pulitzer Prize in 1990, for The Piano Lesson. In 1996, Seven Guitars premiered on the Broadway stage, followed by King Hedley II in 2001 and Gem of the Ocean in 2004.

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   What did August Wilson do for a living?

   • Wilson received numerous honours during his career, including seven New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for best play. He also held Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. Shortly after his death, the Virginia Theater on Broadway was renamed in his honour. The August Wilson Center for African American Culture opened in Pittsburgh in 2009.

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   How old was August Wilson when he became a poet?

   • When he was 15 years old, Wilson pursued an independent education at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, where he would earn his high school diploma. Following his father's death in 1965, a 20-year-old Wilson adopted the pen name "August Wilson" — reportedly an homage to his mother — and declared himself a poet.

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   Did August Wilson win a Pulitzer Prize?

   • African American playwright August Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his play 'Fences' and earned a second Pulitzer Prize for 'The Piano Lesson.' We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Who Was August Wilson? Who Was August Wilson?

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   Why did August Kittel change his name to August Wilson?

   • 1965 – To honor his mother, Frederick August Kittel changes his name to August Wilson. His biological father dies. 1968 – Embracing a heightened black consciousness, August co-founds the Black Horizon Theater with colleagues Rob Penny, Sala Udin, Maisha Baton, Claude Purdy and others. 1969 – August marries Brenda Burton.

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    Born Frederick August Kittel, Jr., to African American cleaning woman Daisy Wilson and a German immigrant baker named Frederick August Kittel, Sr., Wilson grew up as the fourth of six children in a two-room apartment without hot water or a telephone.