When his parents divorced, he, his mother and his siblings moved from the poor Bedford Avenue area of Pittsburgh to the mostly white neighborhood of Oakland. His father was a German immigrant named Frederick Kittel.Īs a child, Kittel attended St. His mother, Daisy Wilson, was of African American heritage. Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 27, 1945. Wilson died on October 2, 2005, in Seattle, Washington. In 1996, Seven Guitars premiered on the Broadway stage, followed by King Hedley II in 2001 and Gem of the Ocean in 2004. Wilson won another Pulitzer Prize in 1990, for The Piano Lesson. Fences earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 1987. Famed playwright August Wilson wrote his first play, Jitney, in 1979.
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