{"id":3410,"date":"2024-02-07T03:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T03:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalit-inst.com\/dm\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2024-02-07T03:56:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T03:56:31","slug":"famous-playwrite-august-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalit-inst.com\/dm\/famous-playwrite-august-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Playwrite August Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"topic-paragraph\"><strong>August Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0(born April 27, 1945,\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink autoxref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Pittsburgh\" data-show-preview=\"true\">Pittsburgh<\/a>, Pennsylvania, U.S.\u2014died October 2, 2005,\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink autoxref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Seattle-Washington\" data-show-preview=\"true\">Seattle<\/a>, Washington) was a playwright who penned an acclaimed cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink autoxref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/African-American\" data-show-preview=\"true\">Black American<\/a>\u00a0life. He won\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Pulitzer-Prize\" data-show-preview=\"true\">Pulitzer Prizes<\/a>\u00a0for two of them:\u00a0<em><span id=\"ref126930\"><\/span><a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Fences\" data-show-preview=\"true\">Fences<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><span id=\"ref126931\"><\/span><a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/The-Piano-Lesson\" data-show-preview=\"true\">The Piano Lesson<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\">Wilson grew up in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, a lively poor neighbourhood that became the setting for most of his plays. Together with five siblings, he was raised by his mother, Daisy Wilson, after his father, Frederick August Kittel, left her and their children. Daisy Wilson later remarried, and in 1958 the family moved to a suburb of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August Wilson\u00a0(born April 27, 1945,\u00a0Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.\u2014died October 2, 2005,\u00a0Seattle, Washington) was a playwright who penned an acclaimed cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about\u00a0Black American\u00a0life. He won\u00a0Pulitzer Prizes\u00a0for two of them:\u00a0Fences\u00a0and\u00a0The Piano Lesson. 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