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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]
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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Oct 3, 2005 · August Wilson, who chronicled the African-American experience in the 20th century in a series of plays that will stand as a landmark in the history of black culture, of American literature and...
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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May 7, 1991 · Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson is being remembered as a literary giant who did more to bring the African American experience to the stage than any other writer. Wilson died on Sunday in Seattle from liver cancer. He was 60.
Oct 6, 2005 · August Wilson, African-American playwright, died on October 2nd, aged 60. Oct 6th 2005. IF EVER someone, following current fashion, decides to stage all the plays of August Wilson's epic...
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Oct 5, 2005 · August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who sought to distill virtually the entire African American experience in a cycle of 10 earthy, poetic and spiritually questing dramas, died...
