August Wilson was born April 27th, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a German immigrant whom was a pastry cook whilst his mother was an African American cleaning lady from North Carolina. August was one of the six children they had. Wilson's mother raised all of her six children in a two bedroom apartment above a grocery store as his father was absent for majority of his childhood. August re-signed under his mother’s surname as a sign of respect for her courage throughout a single parent start of his life. His mother later remarried to David Bedford in the 1950s and moved to a hostile neighborhood mainly inhabited by the white working class. Consequently, racial tensions became high and bricks were thrown through the window multiple