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August Wilson


Born
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States
April 27, 1945

Died
October 02, 2005

Genre
Theater


American playwright August Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for Fences in 1985 and for The Piano Lesson in 1987.

His literary legacy embraces the ten series and received twice for drama for The Pittsburgh Cycle . Each depicted the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience, set in different decade of the 20th century.

Daisy Wilson, an African American cleaning woman from North Carolina, in the hill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, bore Frederick August Kittel, Junior, the fourth of six children, to Frederick August Kittel, Senior, a German immigrant baker. From North Carolina, maternal grandmother of Wilson earlier sought a better life and walked to Pennsylvania. After his fifth year, his mother raised the childr ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 55,511 ratings · 4,186 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors
Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)
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3.88 avg rating — 30,039 ratings — published 1986 — 54 editions
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The Piano Lesson
3.81 avg rating — 10,170 ratings — published 1990 — 18 editions
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
4.01 avg rating — 4,051 ratings — published 1984 — 22 editions
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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Gem of the Ocean
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3.86 avg rating — 1,336 ratings — published 1996 — 16 editions
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Two Trains Running
4.04 avg rating — 1,223 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions
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Series by August Wilson

Gem of the Ocean Joe Turner's Come and Gone Ma Rainey's Black Bottom The Piano Lesson Seven Guitars Fences Two Trains Running
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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson
tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
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“I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.”
― August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
tags: belonging, family
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“You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.”
― August Wilson
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Polls

April 2018 Short Story Poll

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 82 pages, 1848
 
  53 votes, 15.0%

 
  44 votes, 12.5%

The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell, 52 pages, 1861
 
  36 votes, 10.2%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages, 1953
 
  35 votes, 9.9%

 
  33 votes, 9.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  31 votes, 8.8%

 
  29 votes, 8.2%

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, 48 pages, 1729
 
  25 votes, 7.1%

Fences by August Wilson, 101 pages, 1986
 
  19 votes, 5.4%

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, 72 pages, 1877
 
  16 votes, 4.5%

 
  15 votes, 4.2%

 
  12 votes, 3.4%

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth, 87 pages, 1800
 
  5 votes, 1.4%

353 total votes
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