August Wilson

Fences

Tragedy of working-class man's dream destroyed by past and present racism

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August Wilson

The most important African American playwright of the 20th century, Wilson wrote a ten-play cycle chronicling Black experience in each decade of the century. Fences and The Piano Lesson won Pulitzer Prizes. His work combined the blues tradition with Aristotelian dramatic structure to create a uniquely American epic theater.

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