Biographical+Information+on+August+Wilson

=**__August Wilson__**= August Wilson was an American playwright who wrote a play of ten series known as "The Pittsburgh Cycle". He recieved two Pulitzer Prizes for drama.(August Wilson 12) Wilson's "Pitsburgh Cycle" is also referred to as the "Century Cycle".(August Wilson) He grew up in the Hill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.(August Wilson, 12) August Wilson is also well known for his plays such as "Fences", "The Piano Lesson" and many others. He has won many awards for his writting like the Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle award. He had a play that was voted play of the year called "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Wilson was influenced by the music known as "the blues".(August Wilson 12)

Wilson knew that he wanted to be a writer but his mother wanted him to become a lawyer but this always brought tension between the both of them. He was forced to leave the family home and enlisted into the U.S. Army for three-stint in 1962.(August Wilson 12) Wilson worked in a collaboration with Lloyd Richards of the Yale School of Drama.(August Wilson) By the early 1900s he established himself as the best known and most popular African American plawright. He has had many dramatic writing such as "Black Bart and the Sacred Hills" which was influenced by his childhood experieces.(August Wilson 12)

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