August Wilson Research Paper

August Wilson was a writer born Frederick Kittel in Pittsburg to a white father and a African American mother (Boswell, Marshall, and Carl Rollyson). His father divorced and left the family while Wilson was very young, but his mother remarried when he was in his teens (Boswell, Marshall, and Carl Rollyson). He experienced much racism in his life while living with his family in a white suburb, and soon dropped out of high school to join the army (Boswell, Marshall, and Carl Rollyson). In 1965 he decided he wanted to become a playwright and began writing plays that dealt with issues such as racism (Boswell, Marshall, and Carl Rollyson). He also fought racism in real life, and founded the Black Horizon Theatre Company, as well as changing his last name from his father's, Kittel, who had abandoned him to his mother’s, Wilson, in order to accept his racial identity (Boswell, Marshall, and Carl Rollyson). Wilson wrote many great plays, with many of them, including Fences, being broadway hits, as well as earning Wilson many pulitzer prizes (Boswell, Marshall, and Carl Rollyson). He passed away on October 2nd, 2005, but continues to live on and be remembered by many communities in the United States, and world as someone who fought the injustice that he and many

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