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Jan 28, 2015 · He died Sunday, October 2, 2005, in a Seattle hospital. His funeral service was held in Pittsburgh and he is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, not far from his mother Daisy.
Sep 28, 2024 · August Wilson (born April 27, 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died October 2, 2005, Seattle, Washington) was a playwright who penned an acclaimed cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about Black American life.
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Wilson reported that he had been diagnosed with liver cancer in June 2005 and been given three to five months to live. He died at age 60 on October 2 of that year at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, and was interred at Greenwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, on October 8. [30]
Nov 14, 2023 · Zonia died when August Wilson was five, and he only learned about her through his mom, but he does name a character and Joe Turner's Come and Gone Zonia. Why would he name a character after a woman that he really had no memory of?
Jan 24, 2024 · Wilson died of liver cancer on October 2, 2005, in Seattle, Washington. His new play, Radio Golf , had opened in Los Angeles, California, just a few months earlier. Personal Life
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Oct 4, 2005 · Wilson died ludicrously young on Sunday, at the age of 60 in his adoptive home town of Seattle, where he wrote plays, big, garrulous, angry, lyrical, ponderous, often beautiful plays, in an...
Jun 8, 2018 · Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright August Wilson (Frederick August Kittell; born 1945) embarked upon a mission to write a cycle of ten plays addressing central issues that have impacted African Americans in each decade of the 20th century.
