Talk:August Wilson

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August Wilson's The Piano Lesson takes on a journey over past years of slavery and settles with the Ghost of stutter as a staple for truth. The piano must stay in the family while the history is repeated for generations to come. LIFE POETRESS WSSU

Why reduce the biography

Whe was the information about the start of his career in Minnesota removed? Just curious. Grika Ⓣ 14:35, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

i'm wondering if the information about how Wilson was a awarded a degree from Carnegie Library is correct. I'm doing a research paper on the man, and I didn't see any such findings on any other sources. - Alaska

I had a question about the same thing, the degree. The sentence is ambiguous: it says "they" awarded him a degree. The people who run the library awarded the degree? Can libraries award degrees? What degree was it-- a BA? An honorary degree of some kind?

The obituaries in the New York Times and the Pittsburgh paper disagree on the year that Wilson moved from St Paul to New York. I changed it to New York's date, 1994.

Pulitzer?

Did he win the Pulitzer for something specific, or just his work in general. And when? --Chris Griswold 13:55, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

1987 for Fences' --Chris Griswold 13:57, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

And 1990 for The Piano Lesson - both awards were the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Swango 19:14, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Removed "Films" section

I removed the following section (quoted in its entirety) because it was contributed by an IP address associated with California Newsreel. Maybe the information should be included somehow, but I don't know. If it is relevant and worthy of inclusion, I leave it to the regular contributors to this article to determine how it should be included and put it back. -- ke4roh 02:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

==Films== *[http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0048-5&s=August%20Wilson "In Black and White, volume 5: August Wilson" distributed by California Newsreel]<br>

About the author

The section below is from Joe Turner's Come and Gone. I removed it because it didn't belong there; it belongs in this article. Please review and merge in any information you think would improve this article.

August Wilson, born Frederick August Kittel, Jr. to Frederick August Kittel, Sr. and Daisy Wilson, was a German and African-American playwright born on April 27, 1945 and died on October 2, 2005. This Pulitzer Prize winner was the author of the ten installment Pittsburgh Cycle, which contained a play for each decade of the 20th century.

In his early years, Wilson lived in the Hill District of Pittsburgh; an economically-depressed area mainly inhabited by African-Americans, Jewish and Italian immigrants. His experiences in this historically under-class area, and Hazelwood, a working-class white-dominated area that he later lived, affected his writings and plays.

After a brief stint in the Army, Wilson returned to Pittsburgh where he worked odd jobs and eventually became a playwright. He opened the Black Horizon Theatre with his friend Rob Penny in the Hill District and later co-founded the Kuntu Writers Workshop for African-American writers.

Wilson is best known for his plays Fences, The Piano Lesson, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone- all from the Pittsburgh Cycle.

Wilson spent his last days in Seattle, WA, where we worked closely with the Seattle Repertory Theatre (the only theatre to stage all ten plays of his Century Cycle). He died in Seattle at age 60 of liver cancer.

Normally I'd take care of such tasks myself, but I'm really out of my element on this topic. — Frecklefσσt | Talk 12:20, 1 June 2009

I removed a sentence about Mr. Wilson "waiting for his teacher and principal to apologize", after he was accused of plagarizing a paper. This seems to imply that Wilson did something to prove his innocence, which is not mentioned in the article.Mk5384 (talk) 22:38, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

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How was Wilson able to leave the Army after serving one year of a three-year enlistment?

Did he get a hardship discharge? A dishonorable discharge? A "general" discharge -- better than "dishonorable" but lower than the standard "honorable" discharge? Was he discharged for mental or psychological reasons (the slang term was "Section 8")? Someone out there must have that information. (71.22.47.232 (talk) 04:50, 19 February 2011 (UTC))

About August Wilson's father

Official records show that Fred Kittel was married to his first wife, Jenny Jodzis, from 1919 until her death in 1964. It was only then that he married the mother of August Wilson (and his siblings). It is true that Daisy Wilson lived for a while with David Bedford and he became an important model for young August. But while John Lahr claims that when August was twelve "Daisy had divorced Kittel and had taken up with David Bedford...whom she later married" (Honky Tonk Parade, 2005, p. 17), this latter claim has no basis in fact. --Johannes (talk) 13:19, 1 September 2013 (UTC)