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August Wilson was an American playwright best known for his extraordinary cycle of 10 plays that chronicle the 20th century African-American experience. All but one of Wilson’s masterful plays are set in the Hill District, the working-class neighborhood of his birth in 1945
28 de jan. de 2015 · August Wilson (1945 - 2005) was an award-winning American playwright whose work illuminated the joys and struggles of the African-American experience in. Skip to main content Skip to footer site map.
16 de jan. de 2020 · August Wilson was born April 27, 1945, in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, a poor Black neighborhood. At birth, he bore his baker father’s name, Frederick August Kittel. His father was a German immigrant, known for his drinking and temper, and his mother, Daisy Wilson, was African American. She taught her son to stand up to injustice.
August Wilson. August Wilson, eigentlich Frederick August Kittel, Jr. (* 27. April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; † 2. Oktober 2005 in Seattle, Washington ), war ein amerikanischer Dramatiker und Bühnenautor sowie zweifacher Pulitzer-Preisträger. Er wurde 2005 für sein Lebenswerk mit dem Anisfield-Wolf Book Award ausgezeichnet.
African American literature - August Wilson, Drama, Poetry: The most accomplished of all African American dramatists in the last half of the 20th century, August Wilson, a high-school dropout and Black Power activist in the 1960s, opened his first major play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, on Broadway in 1984 with great critical and commercial success.
August Wilson’s play “Fences” is a masterpiece of American literature that explores the complexities of family, race, and the American Dream. Through vivid characters and powerful dialogue, Wilson delves deep into the human experience, revealing the struggles and triumphs of African Americans in the 1950s. In this literary analysis, we ...
August Wilson was taking the theater world by storm. In addition to these creative efforts, Wilson sought to strengthen and promote African American theatre. Following a public debate with critic/producer Robert Brustein in January 1997 in New York City concerning race, culture and theatre, Wilson convened a conference on African American Theater at Dartmouth in 1998.
