Overview :The "masterful" (The Wall Street Journal), "invaluable" (Los Angeles Times) first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most importa... Read More
Overview :Fences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil... Read More
Overview :"What I want to do is place the culture of Black America on stage, to demonstrate that it has the ability to offer sustenance." In little mo... Read More
Overview :This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his p... Read More
Overview :The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about Afric... Read More
Overview :Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music ... Read More
Overview :Winner 1990 Pulitzer Prize for DramaWinner 1990 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding New PlayNominee 1990 Tony Award, Best PlayNominee 2013 Out... Read More
Overview :Set in 1904, August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of Aunt Esther's 287th birthday. When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh... Read More
Overview :Finalist 2000 Pulitzer Prize in DramaPeddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King He... Read More
Overview :Finalist 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Drama This is the 1960s chapter of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright's decade by decade saga of ordinar... Read More
Overview :An ode to one of America's foremost Black playwrights, August Wilson, and a meditation on culture, erasure, and what ultimately drives an ar... Read More
Overview :A Study Guide for August Wilson's "Fences," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summar... Read More
Overview :Fences is the story of a responsible yet otherwise flawed black garbage collector in pre-Civil Rights America who, in August Wilson's hands,... Read More
Overview :One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from ... Read More
Overview :A Study Guide for August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot... Read More