This page is dedicated to Fences Playwright August Wilson, and his life's work.
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August Wilson was an influential 20th-century playwright and the most prominent African American of that craft. Though he lived much of his adult life in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in Seattle, the characters and plots of his plays were inspired by realities he experienced growing up in Pittsburgh's Hill District and Oakland neighborhood: poverty, racism, and the richness of Black culture. He was noted especially for his "Decade Cycle" or "Pittsburgh Cycle," consisting of one play set in each decade of the 20th century. He won Pulitzer Prizes for The Piano Lesson and Fences . The "Cycle" plays won seven New York Drama Critics Circle awards, an American Theatre Critics award, and a British Olivier Award. |
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