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| Name: |
August Wilson | | Variant Name: |
Frederick August Kittell | | Birth Date: |
1945 | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
playwright |
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Biography of August Wilson
9340 words, approx. 31.1 pages
 August Wilson is one of the leading American playwrights of the late twentieth century. He has been phenomenally successful, having won two Pulitzers, five New York Drama Critics Circle awards, and several Tonys in a long list of prestigious awards, gran...
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Biography of August Wilson
1742 words, approx. 5.8 pages
 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 centur...


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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Information
450 words, approx. 2 pages
 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is the title of a song by Ma Rainey referring to the Black Bottom dance, which has been taken as the name of a 1982 play; one of a ten-play cycle by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, that chronicles...



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Ma Rainey's black bottom. (Cort Theatre, New York) (theater reviews)
12/08/1984: 1,972 words, approx. 7 pages American culture contains only so many myths or stories of central, importance, and one of those is surely the story of black music and its fate in the white world. Black musicians invent a certain style, demonstrate its brilliance and get clobbered for...
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The heartfelt journey of 'Radio Golf'
5/5/2007: 946 words, approx. 3 pages "Radio Golf," the final chapter in August Wilson's monumental, decade-by-decade look at the black experience in 20th century America, is a play forged by illness, reworked in a furious burst of creativity during the last months of the playwright's life.Its two-year trek to Broadway, where...


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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson | |
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