August Wilson (27 April 1945 – 2 Oktober 2005) adalah seorang pengarang drama Amerika yang karyanya meliputi sebuah serial sepuluh drama, The Pittsburgh Cycle, di mana ia meraih dua Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Setiap karya dalam serial tersebut berlatar dekade berbeda, dan menggambarkan aspek komika dan tragis dari pengalaman Afrika-Amerika pada abad ke-20.
| August Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Lahir | Frederick August Kittel Jr. 27 April 1945 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, AS |
| Wafat | 2 Oktober 2005 (umur 60) Seattle, Washington, AS |
| Pekerjaan | Pengarang, pengarang drama |
| Kebangsaan | Amerika |
| Pasangan | Brenda Burton (m. 1969–1972)Judy Oliver (m. 1981; bercerai 1990)Constanza Romero (m. 1994; kematiannya 2005) |
| Anak | 2 |
| Informasi | |
| Karya terbaik | The Pittsburgh Cycle |
| Penghargaan | Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1987, 1990), Whiting Award (1986) |
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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai August Wilson.
- August Wilson Theatre Broadway
- August Wilson Center for African American Culture
- Berkeley Rep profile of Wilson and works 2012-02-23 di Wayback Machine.
- The Whiting Foundation Profile
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article
- August Wilson di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- (Inggris) August Wilson di Charlie Rose
- August Wilson on Blackness, Bill Moyers, A World of Ideas, October 20, 1988.
- Bonnie Lyons, George Plimpton (Winter 1999). "August Wilson, The Art of Theater No. 14". The Paris Review.
- NPR Intersections: August Wilson, Writing to the Blues, March 1, 2004, audio interview (6 mins).
- Interview with Wilson, Believer Journal, November 2004.
- Putting Up Fences, article with video, BU Today, September 17, 2009.
- "Theater Is to Be Renamed for a Dying Playwright", New York Times, September 2, 2005.
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obituary, October 3, 2005
- "August Wilson, Theater's Poet of Black America, Is Dead at 60", The New York Times, October 3, 2005.
- Margaret Busby, "August Wilson – Distinguished black American playwright who reclaimed the stories of his people" (obituary), The Guardian, October 4, 2005.