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August Wilson March 15 th 2011 4 th period

August Wilson Jemiah Jones March 16 2011 4 th period. August Wilson March 15 th 2011 4 th period. Biography . !. April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005

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August Wilson March 15 th 2011 4 th period

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  1. August Wilson Jemiah Jones March 16 2011 4th period • August Wilson • March 15th 2011 • 4th period

  2. Biography. ! • April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005 • was an American playwright. His literary legacy is a serious of plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

  3. Childhood . ! • Wilson was born Frederick August Kittle, Jr. in the Hill Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, the fourth of seven children to German immigrant baker, Frederick August Kittle, Sr. and Daisy Wilson, an African American cleaning woman, from North American. Earlier, Wilson's maternal grandmother walked from North Carolina to Pennsylvania in search of a better life. His mother raised the children alone until he was five in a two-room apartment above a grocery store at 1727 Bedford Avenue.

  4. Education . ! • Wilson was the only African-American student at the Central Catholic High School in 1959 where he was soon driven away by threats and abuse. He then attended Connelly Vocational High School, but found the curriculum unchallenging. He dropped out of Gladstone High School in the 10th grade in 1960 after his teacher accused him of plagiarizing 20-page paper he wrote monopole on 1 Of France .

  5. Career . ! • By this time, Wilson knew that he wanted to be a writer, but this created tension with his mother, who wanted him to become a lawyer. She forced him to leave the family home and he enlisted in the United States Army for a three-year stint in 1962, but left after one year and went back to working various odd jobs as a porter, short-order cook, gardener, and dishwasher.

  6. The Pittsburgh Cycle . ! • 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. The plays are each set in a different decade and aim to sketch the Black experience in the 20th century.

  7. Plays . ! • Recycle, 1973 (produced in Pittsburgh, PA) • Black Bart and the Sacred Hills, 1977 (produced St. Paul, 1981) • Fullerton Street, 1980 • The Homecoming, 1989 • The Coldest Day of the Year, 1989 • How I Learned What I Learned (2002–03, Seattle)

  8. Personal life . ! • Wilson was married three times. His first marriage was to Brenda Burton from 1969 to 1972. They had one daughter, Salina An sari, born 1970. In 1981 he was married to Judy Oliver, a social worker, and divorced in 1990. Wilson's third marriage was in 1994 to costume designer, Constanta Rome, with whom he had his second daughter, Azuela Carmen Wilson.

  9. - Love Quote . ! • “Style isn't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.”   • - August Wilson

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