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	PAL: August Wilson (1945-2005)
		Wilson was a bright student, but due to racial taunts and discrimination, culminating in a professor's disbelief in his writing ability and accusation of plagiarism, he dropped out of high school at age 15 (Wolfe 2).
		Wilson was also greatly influenced by playwright Amiri Baraka, a participant in the Black Art movement of the 1960Õs.Through Baraka's writing, Wilson "learned sociology and political commitment" and learned to include the emotions of anger and violence.
		Wilson's importance as a dramatist stems from his own background as a fl man born and raised in America, struggling against alienation in his own country.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap8/wilson.html (1853 words)

	August Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright.
		Wilson's parents stayed together until he was five, and his fathers raised their children in Manalapan, New Jersey a Bedford Avenue two-room apartment behind a grocery store.
		Wilson served as a scriptwriter and director for the next ten years; desperate for space, they staged many of their plays in elementary school auditoriums and community centers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_Wilson (1335 words)

	August Wilson Theatre Tickets - Maps, Events, Seating Chart - Ticket Brokers
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	Biography of August Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		August Wilson has been hailed since the mid-1980s as an important talent in the American theatre.
		Richards worked with Wilson to refine the play, and when it was presented at Yale in 1984 it was hailed as the work of an important new playwright.
		Wilson's subsequent plays include the Pulitzer Prize- winning Fences, which is about a former athlete who forbids his son to accept an athletic scholarship, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, which concerns an ex-convict's efforts to find his wife.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~awilson/bio.html (2370 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - August Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		August Wilson is one of America's most prolific writers, whose plays, like those written by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, are produced throughout the country on a regular basis.
		August Wilson grew up as the fourth of six children in a fl slum of Pittsburgh, his home a two-room apartment without hot water or a telephone.
		Wilson has devoted his career to dramatizing these tensions within the fl community even while he upholds the dignity of the individuals who struggle with their past.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/wilson_a.htm (2763 words)

	August Wilson versus Robert Brustein
		Wilson's address, in which he called Brustein (the only individual mentioned by name) "a sniper, a naysayer, and a cultural imperialist," was in retaliation (or so Brustein has inferred) to Brustein's earlier, unfavorable reviews of Wilson's widely admired plays.
		Wilson's primary concern in his TCG address, and one that he returns to today, was that there was only one fl theater among 65 LORT (League of Resident Theaters) theaters in America.
		Wilson's mother taught her son to read when he was only four, and by the age of five he had his own library card.
	www.princetoninfo.com /wilson.html (3785 words)

	August Wilson's final act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		August Wilson's widow, Constanza Romero, leaves the service with their daughter, Azula Wilson; to the right is Mr.
		August Wilson made a final visit to the Hill District yesterday as his funeral procession drove through his old neighborhood, the birthplace of the works that made him one of America's greatest playwrights.
		Wilson's biography, the years when as young men, they tried to give voice to the struggles of a community threatened by urban renewal, poverty and discrimination.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05282/585349.stm (825 words)

	Playwright August Wilson dies at 60 - THEATER - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Wilson’s plays were big, often sprawling and poetic, dealing primarily with the effects of slavery on succeeding generations of fl Americans: from turn-of-century characters who could remember the Civil War to a prosperous middle class at the end of the century who had forgotten the past.
		Wilson’s astonishing creation, which took more than 20 years to complete, was remarkable not only for his commitment to a certain structure — one play for each decade — but for the quality of the writing.
		Born Frederick August Kittel on April 27, 1945, he was one of seven children of Frederick Kittel, a baker who had emigrated from Germany at the age of 10, and Daisy Wilson.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9570391 (982 words)

	village voice > theater > by Michael Feingold
		October 3rd, 2005 4:50 PM August Wilson was born and raised in Pittsburgh.
		Everything in a Wilson play is both recognizably real and yet larger than life, the quintessence of the paradox being the figure of Aunt Ester, whom we meet in the cycle's first play and whose death casts a shadow over its ninth.
		This was not a matter of Wilson's being a racist—he worked willingly and congenially with white artists in every capacity, and was invariably gracious in acknowledging their contribution—but of his affirming, once again, African Americans' right to a place in the mainstream, and particularly in interpreting works that were products of African American culture.
	villagevoice.com /theater/0540,webfeingold,68479,11.html (1406 words)

	AllRefer.com - August Wilson (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		August Wilson 1945–;, American playwright and poet, b.
		Largely self-educated, Wilson first attracted wide critical attention with his Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), a play set in 1927 that dramatizes the conflicts between the blues diva and a member of her band and the larger conflicts brought about by racist American society.
		Wilson's plays center on the struggles and identity of African Americans and the deleterious effect of white American institutions such as religion and law on fl American life.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WilsonAug.html (284 words)

	August Wilson — Infoplease.com
		Wilson's plays center on the struggles and identity of African Americans and the deleterious effect of white American institutions on fl American life.
		August Wilson - August Wilson Age: 60 playwright, poet, and writer whose work focused on the struggles of African...
		August Wilson - August Wilson playwright, poet, writer Born: 4/27/1945 Birthplace: Pittsburgh Tony Award- and...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852377.html (391 words)

	CNN/TIME - America's Best
		August was a poet before he became a playwright, and poetry is still part of the language his characters speak.
		Those family confrontations -- when the mighty forces that August gathers on the stage clash, either with words or with action -- are the scenes that are hard to shake.
		August says that when he writes he leaves some blood on the page.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.awilson.html (382 words)

	The Hill District: People: August Wilson
		Wilson gives words to trumpeters and trash men, cabbies and conjurers, boarders and landladies, all joined by a heritage of slavery.
		[In "Joe Turner's Come and Gone"], Wilson is a generous artist; he provides 11 compelling characters, an irresistible story and a power of language that lends a vivid music to a myriad of emotions.
		August always had a strong sense of history...He feels we can all learn from the past so we can improve the future.
	www.clpgh.org /exhibit/neighborhoods/hill/hill_n102.html (330 words)

	August Wilson
		The premier at the Yale Repertory established a collaborative bond between Wilson and Lloyd Richards who was then dean of the Yale School of Drama.
		Wilson currently resides in Seattle, Washington where he put the finishing touches on his latest play in the cycle, "Moon Going Down." It opened as his newest drama, Seven Guitars, at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago in January and February 1995.
		August Wilson's latest drama, KING HEDLEY II opens at the Virginia Theatre on Broadway in April 2001, and it stars Tony award-winner Brian Stokes-Mitchell and Leslie Uggams
	www.bridgesweb.com /blacktheatre/wilson.html (2091 words)

	August Wilson's legacy. - By Rachel Shteir - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For one, at least half are overly long, a fact that some critics attribute to Wilson's collaborator, Lloyd Richards, the former dean of the Yale School of Drama, who cared less about the length of the first act than the emotional heft of the second one.
		If Wilson's plays sometimes soft-pedal reality in their denouements, in later life he himself began to compensate for this in his speaking appearances and essays.
		Wilson, of course, manufactured such endings because he was trying to get beyond, or around, or behind the despairing stereotypes of African-American life that contaminate the American theater and Hollywood.
	slate.msn.com /id/2127490 (1699 words)

	AUGUST WILSON, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES
		August Wilson was born in 1945 with the name Frederick August Kittel.
		Though he left school in ninth grade when a teacher suspected him of plagiarizing, Wilson wanted to become a poet.
		Wilson is married to the former Constanza Romero, and has a daughter, Sakina Ansari, by a previous marriage.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/wilson.html (314 words)

	FOXNews.com - Playwright August Wilson Dies at 60 - Celebrity Gossip \| Entertainment News \| Arts And Entertainment
		Born Frederick August Kittel on April 27, 1945, he was one of six children of Frederick Kittel, a baker who had emigrated from Germany at the age of 10, and Daisy Wilson.
		Wilson's reputation was cemented in 1987 by the father-son drama "Fences," his biggest commercial success.
		Wilson, who was married three times, is survived by his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero; their daughter Azula Carmen, and another daughter, Sakina Ansari, from his first marriage.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,171026,00.html (1278 words)

	August Wilson
		Wilson is one of the premiere playwrights of the last decade: his contributions are related in contexts of Afro-American history, social change, and fl literary achievement.
		Chapters follow the chronology in which Wilson wrote his plays, presenting analyses of each play and exploring the underlying messages of his drama.
		Her scholarly work on Wilson has appeared in several journals and books, as well as in "The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History" -- establishing her as the nation's preeminent scholar on August Wilson.
	www.nathanielturner.com /augustwilson.htm (311 words)

	TIME.com: 100 Years in One Life -- May 2, 2005 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		August Wilson is on the final stretch of his 10-play epic.
		August Wilson's mom, a cleaning woman trying to raise four kids in the Pittsburgh slums, won a radio contest once.
		Wilson thought of his mother when he nixed the idea, insisting that the play--about a former Negro League baseball player struggling to support a family in 1957--must be directed by an African American: "Man, I'm thinking, 'Something is not always better than nothing.' She influenced me in ways like that."
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1053643-1,00.html (804 words)

	Drama: August Wilson
		This page presents a timeline chronicling Wilson's life from his birth in 1945 to the present.
		Wilson was in the middle of writing Seven Guitars, and the characters had just begun to speak to him.
		Wilson's first two plays failed to gain much attention, but his third, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1982), about a group of fl musicians discussing their experiences in racist America, won him wide recognition as an important new dramatist and interpreter of the African American experience.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/wilson.htm (367 words)

	Painted Voices - August Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Born on April 27, 1945 in Pittsburgh, PA, and named Frederick August Kittel, Wilson adopted his mother's maiden name in the early 1970s.
		In 1983, Wilson wrote Fences, which opened on Broadway in 1987 and went on to win a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
		Another play of Wilson's to win the coveted Pulitzer Prize was Piano Lesson, which opened on Broadway in 1990.
	www.black-collegian.com /african/painted-voices/august.shtml (281 words)

	Amazon.com: Fences: Books: August Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		From the opening scene we as audience members are dropped whole into the world of the characters in August Wilson's classic play.
		Fences, a play written by August Wilson was exceptionally well written.
		Wilson truly is. Fences is about two middle age men Jim "Bono" and "Troy" Maxson and their lives.
	www.amazon.com /Fences-August-Wilson/dp/0452264014 (1649 words)

	NPR : Playwright August Wilson Dies
		August Wilson spent more than 20 years writing a cycle of plays that chronicle fl life in 20th-century America.
		Morning Edition, October 3, 2005 ·; Internationally renowned playwright August Wilson died Sunday at the age of 60 after a battle with liver cancer.
		Wilson achieved success with his plays Piano Lessons, Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4933572 (145 words)

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