August Wilson's American century : life as art /
"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 comple...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Power of Place
- From Plumtree to Pittsburgh
- Bedford Avenue Outsider
- Hazelwood Warrior
- Centre Avenue Poet
- Early Poetry
- Race Man
- Black Horizons Theatre
- Return to Poetry
- Leaving Pittsburgh
- Discovering Bearden, Finding His Way
- Breakthroughs
- Grappling with Black Nationalism
- Seattle Years
- Completing the Cycle
- Preserving the Legacy.