August Wilson: A Life Hartigan Patti
August Wilson: A Life Hartigan Patti The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew…
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August Wilson: A Life Hartigan Patti
The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him.August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. Two of the plays became successful films, Fences, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis; and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. No other American playwright has completed such an ambitious oeuvre.
Fences and The Piano Lesson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Fences won the Tony Award for Best Play, and years after Wilson's death in 2005, Jitney earned a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.Through his brilliant use of vernacular speech, Wilson developed unforgettable characters who epitomized the trials and
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