Two trains running
Main Author: | Wilson, August. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Theatre Communications Group,
2007.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: |
The August Wilson century cycle
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Subjects: |
Item Description: |
"1969." |
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Physical Description: |
ix, 99 p. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781559363037 (vol.) 1559363037 (vol.) 9781559363075 (set) 155936307X (set) |
Author Notes: |
Wilson wrote a ten play cycle that chronicles each decade of the black experience in the 20th century. Each of his plays focuses on what he perceived as the largest issue to confront African-Americans in that decade. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Fences and Piano Lesson, the best play Tony Award for Fences, and seven New York Drama Critics' Circle awards. He also received the Whiting Foundation Award, the American Theatre Critics Award, the 1999 National Humanities Medal awarded by the President, and numerous honorary degrees. He died of liver cancer on October 2, 2005 at the age of 60. (Bowker Author Biography) |