August Wilson (1945-2005) is an African-American playwright best known for a series of ten plays about the experience of black Americans in the 20th century. Each play is set in Wilson’s hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and takes place in a different decade of that century.
Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel. He has three older
sisters and two younger brothers. Wilson’s father, Frederick
Kittel, was white; according to Wilson and his sisters Kittle
immigrated from Austro-Hungary in 1915 at the age of ten and became
a baker. Wilson’s mother, Daisy Wilson, was born in Pittsburgh.
August Wilson took his mother’s maiden name after his father died
in 1965. There is no biography of Wilson; the …
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