August+Wilson

= AUGUST WILSON = August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. His literary legacy is a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle," also often referred to as his "Century Cycle," consists of ten plays—nine of which are set in Pittsburgh's Hill District, an African-American neighborhood that takes on a mythic literary significance like Thomas Hardy's Wessex, William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha CountyIrish playwright Brian Friel's Ballybeg. The plays are each set in a different decade and aim to sketch the Black experience in the 20th century.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson#Biography ) = Plays = =**Links**=
 * 1900s - Gem of the Ocean (2003)
 * 1910s - Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988)
 * 1920s - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) - set in Chicago
 * 1930s - The Piano Lesson (1990) - Pulitzer Prize[4]
 * 1940s - Seven Guitars (1995)
 * 1950s - Fences (1987) - Pulitzer Prize[4]
 * 1960s - Two Trains Running (1991)
 * 1970s - Jitney (1982)
 * 1980s - King Hedley II (1999)
 * 1983-Fences(1950s)-Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award1987
 * 1990s - Radio Golf (2005)
 * http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc48.html**
 * http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/839/the-art-of-theater-no-14-august-wilson**
 * http://www.augustwilsoncenter.org/about/index.php**
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