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The August Wilson century cycle

by August Wilson
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About Author

August Wilson

August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle), which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community in the 20th century. Plays in the series include Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990), each of which won Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988). In 2006, Wilson was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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During the 1950's Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.

How the series evolves

beginning
Radio Golf
0.0· tough start
finale
Joe Turner's come and gone
5.0· sticks the landing
overall
2.6· getting stronger with each book

Books in this Series

Radio Golf

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Fences

August Wilson
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During the 1950's Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.

Gem of the Ocean

August Wilson
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Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century-an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Aunt Esther, the drama's 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.

Joe Turner's come and gone

August Wilson
5.0 (2)
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When Herald Loomis arrives at an African-American Pittsburgh boardinghouse, after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body.