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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...

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...

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson Frederick Kittel, later known as August Wilson, was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Hill District, where The Piano Lesson takes place. He learned to read at the age of four, but this early promise of...

The Piano Lesson is a play by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. It was the 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama. The play concerns a brother and a sister arguing about whether they should sell their family piano. It represents...

August Wilson’s extraordinary first play, Jitney (1982), born in the chains of slavery and the necessity of memory, was a tragedy of small and profound lives lived out in good humor and mortal struggle and amazing grace, as if the fragility of life were a...

"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...

It's called simply "The August Wilson Century Cycle" _ 10 plays celebrating the black experience in 20th-century America _ one for each decade.And now Wilson's masterworks are available in one place: a 10-volume, hardcover, boxed set, to be published Oct. 1 by Theatre Communications Group...