Fuller, Charles
Fuller, Charles( 1939– ),Philadelphia-born playwright whose themes draw upon his experiences as a black and in the army (1959). His works include Perfect Party (1968); Candidate (1974); In the Deepest Part of Sleep (1974); The Brownsville Raid (1976), about black soldiers dishonorably discharged because of racial prejudice during the era of Theodore Roosevelt; Zooman and the Sign (1980), depicting a tough teenager in Philadelphia; and A Soldier's Play (1981, Pulitzer Prize), treating the trial of a black soldier for murder. A five-play series about black Americans in the second half of the 19th century has begun with Sally, Prince, Jonquil (1990), and Burner's Frolic (1990).
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