August Wilson (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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August Wilson considered contact with one’s roots to be a crucial source of strength, and his plays have explored and celebrated African American culture. Wilson’s plays also acknowledge the white racism that has marked African American history. Black experience in America contains, Wilson noted, “all the universalities.” His work has received wide acclaim, winning Pulitzers and numerous other awards.
Wilson’s father was a white baker from Germany, and his mother was a black cleaning woman who had moved to Pittsburgh from rural North Carolina....
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