August Wilson’s American Century Life as Art | 67.9 MB
Title: August Wilson’s American Century
Author: Laurence A. Glasco
Category: Biography & Memoir, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Nonfiction, History, Military
Language: English | 470 Pages | ISBN: 0822948540
Description:
Listed in Pioneer Press (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Most Anticipated of 2026
Playwright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays-including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson-that chronicle the lives of Black Americans in each decade of the twentieth century. But behind the celebrated plays stands a complex man shaped by his hometown’s vibrant Black culture. In August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art, Laurence A. Glasco, one of the foremost historians of Black life in Pittsburgh, draws on Wilson’s early poetry, archival material, and original interviews with family members, neighbors, and friends to show how the city and its residents shaped the playwright and his work. Wilson’s overlapping identities as an outsider, warrior, race man, and poet helped him persevere in the face of setbacks, weave real-life observations with his poetry to craft memorable dialogue…
Listed in Pioneer Press (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Most Anticipated of 2026
Playwright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays-including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson-that chronicle the lives of Black Americans in each decade of the twentieth century. But behind the celebrated plays stands a complex man shaped by his hometown’s vibrant Black culture. In August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art, Laurence A. Glasco, one of the foremost historians of Black life in Pittsburgh, draws on Wilson’s early poetry, archival material, and original interviews with family members, neighbors, and friends to show how the city and its residents shaped the playwright and his work. Wilson’s overlapping identities as an outsider, warrior, race man, and poet helped him persevere in the face of setbacks, weave real-life observations with his poetry to craft memorable dialogue…
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