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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glasco, Laurence Admiral (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.