August Wilson on Playwriting: An Interview.
| Publisher | African American Review |
| Publication | African American Review |
| Subject | Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 1062-4783 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2001-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Elisabeth J. Heard |
| Person | Interviews | August Wilson |
How does August Wilson view his plays and the process by which he creates them? Where does he start when writing a new play? Is August Wilson writing with a particular audience in mind? Joan Herrington, in "I Ain't Sorry for Nothin'I Done": August Wilson's Process of Playwriting, attributes Wilson's success in playwriting to his influences, which he himself refers to as the "four 'B's'" (2)--the blues, the playwright Amiri Baraka, the painter Romare Bearden, and the short story writer Jorge Luis Borges. She also discusses what she calls Wilson's "new methodology of playwriting" (113),...
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