August Wilson's life plays out in pages of new book

It wasn't easy for Frederick August Kittel Jr., a high school dropout from Pittsburgh's Hill District, to transform himself into August Wilson, the venerable playwright whose 10-play cycle examining 20th century Black life in America earned him a seat in the pantheon beside Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Mi

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