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  1. Nov 4, 2019 · By David Sheward | Last Updated: November 4, 2019. August Wilson, who searingly portrayed the African-American experience in the 20th century in an epic ten-play cycle, died Oct. 2 in his city of ...

  2. Nov 17, 2023 · Summary Transcript. Our series Full Bio returns, and this month we are focusing on the life of pioneering playwright August Wilson, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, and whose plays focus on the life of Black Americans in the 20th century. Biographer Patti Hartigan joins us for a deep dive into her book, August Wilson: A Life.

  3. Oct 8, 2005 · A program from August Wilson's funeral held in Pittsburgh, PA on Saturday, October 8, 2005. The program is printed with dark brown ink on light brown paper. The front of the program features an image of August Wilson at center. Above the image is “A Celebration of the Life of / AUGUST WILSON.” Below the image is “April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005” and “Saturday, October 8, 2005 ...

  4. 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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  6. Jan 11, 2017 · By Ben Brantley and Wesley Morris. Jan. 11, 2017. During two improbably fertile decades, starting in the 1980s, August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote a cycle of 10 generation-spanning plays portraying ...

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  8. 7. The Four B’s. August Wilson never formally studied theater. He often explained that he got his education from the four B’s: the blues, the art of painter Romare Bearden and the writing of poet Amiri Baraka and writer/poet Jorge Luis Borges. “The foundation of my playwriting is poetry,” Wilson once said.

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