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Jan 28, 2015 · In the late 90s, with a career spanning nearly two decades, Wilson married his third wife, costume designer Constanza Romero. The two had a daughter and moved to Seattle, WA, where Wilson...
Jan 24, 2024 · In 1981 Wilson married his second wife Judy Oliver. The pair divorced in 1990. In 1994, Wilson married for the third time, to a costume designer named Constanza Romero and had daughter,...
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Wilson's mother divorced his father and married David Bedford in the 1950s, and the family moved from the Hill District to the then predominantly White working-class neighborhood of Hazelwood, where they encountered racial hostility; bricks were thrown through a window at their new home.
Sep 28, 2024 · Together with five siblings, he was raised by his mother, Daisy Wilson, after his father, Frederick August Kittel, left her and their children. Daisy Wilson later remarried, and in 1958 the family moved to a suburb of Pittsburgh.
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Aug 16, 2023 · Wilson, married in 1969 and a father by 1970, was living the existence of a starving artist with a baby daughter, and was devastated by the divorce from his first wife in 1973.
Aug 14, 2023 · The Pulitzer prize-winner's life's work, a 10-play Century Cycle depicting the lives of African Americans in Pittsburgh (except for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) includes “Jitney,” “The Piano...
Jan 16, 2020 · Wilson died of liver cancer on October 2, 2005, at the age of 60 in a Seattle hospital. He had not announced that he was suffering from the disease until a month before his death. His third wife, costume designer Constanza Romero, three daughters (one with Romero and two with his first wife), and several siblings survived him.
