August Wilson (1945–2005)
Autor(a) de Fences
About the Author
Playwright August Wilson was born on April 27, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His experiences of living in a primarily black community and then being the only black student in his class at a Roman Catholic high school would inform his dramatic writings. He dropped out of school at the age of 15 mostrar mais and continued his education on his own. Wilson wrote a ten play cycle that chronicles each decade of the black experience in the 20th century. Each of his plays focuses on what he perceived as the largest issue to confront African-Americans in that decade. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Fences and Piano Lesson, the best play Tony Award for Fences, and seven New York Drama Critics' Circle awards. He also received the Whiting Foundation Award, the American Theatre Critics Award, the 1999 National Humanities Medal awarded by the President, and numerous honorary degrees. He died of liver cancer on October 2, 2005 at the age of 60. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por August Wilson
Fences by August Wilson (1986-06-01) 4 exemplares
Fences [DVD] [2017] 3 exemplares
The piano lesson ; and, Joe Turner's come and gone 2 exemplares
Testimonies (in Antaeus) 2 exemplares
Joe Turner's Come & Gone ; Act 1 & 2 1 exemplar
Fences [radioplay] 1 exemplar
Theater - Summer/Fall 1985 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 915 exemplares
A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 548 exemplares
The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Contribuidor — 178 exemplares
The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights (1988) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama (Mentor Series) (1992) — Playwright — 29 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Wilson, August
- Nome legal
- Kittel, Jr., Frederick August
- Data de nascimento
- 1945-04-27
- Data de falecimento
- 2005-10-02
- Localização do túmulo
- Greenwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Locais de residência
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Educação
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
- Ocupações
- author
playwright - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1995)
United States Army - Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Humanities Medal (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1992)
Whiting Writers' Award (1986)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1987, 1990)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 30
- Also by
- 13
- Membros
- 4,928
- Popularidade
- #5,097
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 58
- ISBN
- 93
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 12