![]() ![]() ![]() His identification with a strong Black tradition was strengthened as he listened to stories being told among the members of his community stories of a people with a “rich” yet sorrowful history trying to carve out a meaningful life for themselves in the face of centuries of persecution.Īctors Phylicia Rashad and John Earl Elks in a scene from August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, set in the first decade of the twentieth century. “I grew up in my mother’s household in a which was Black,” he said. Originally named Frederick August Kittel after his white immigrant father, Wilson officially adopted his African American mother’s last name and culture. Wilson, the author of an impressive “cycle” of 10 plays exploring a decade of African American history, was born in 1945 in the ethnically-diverse Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Most playwrights are lucky if they have just one hit. ![]()
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