ENG 1055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: August Wilson, Ma Rainey, King Hedley Ii
23 Nov 2022
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He won a pulitzer prize and a tony award for his play, fences in 1987. In 1990, his play, the piano lesson won him another pulitzer prize. His first lay was jitney, written in 1979. He wrote a series of ten playwrights and named it the. August was a son to daisy wilson, an african-american woman married to frederic. High school, where he faced racial discrimination from white students leading him to transfer to. He also transferred to gladstone high school, which was his last school. From all schools he went, he ended up dropping school and start doing private studies at carnegie library of pittsburg. He was 15 by then when he started his diploma. He had a family of two daughters, from his three wives relationships. He died on october 2, 2005, in washington. August wilson composed a series of ten plays in one book titled the pittsburgh cycle (wilson,
