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August Wilson a life

"Ever since Ma Rainey's Black Bottom captivated Broadway audiences, August Wilson established himself as the most important American playwright of the last fifty years. His decade-by-decade cycle of ten plays about the African American experience in the twentieth century put Black life center stage,...

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Main Author: Hartigan, Patti (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Wilson, August.
African American dramatists > 20th century > Biography.
African American poets > 20th century > Biography.
American drama > African American authors.
Theater > United States > History and criticism.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The blood's memory
  • The crossroads of the world
  • Something is not always better than nothing
  • A period of reinvention
  • A road marked with signposts
  • Learning to listen
  • The launchpad of American theater
  • Living on mother's prayer
  • A fastball on the outside corner
  • Shining like new money
  • What do you do with your legacy?
  • Pick up the ball
  • "You a big man"
  • The ground on which I stand
  • A master jitney driver
  • The struggle continues
  • An uphill battle in the basement
  • Keeping the tradition alive
  • Wherever you are, I'm here
  • Afterword.

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