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Dateline: 3rd October, 2005
August Wilson, America's leading black playwright, has died of cancer of the liver at the age of 60. The twice Pulitzer Prize-winner wrote a series of ten plays, one for each decade of the twentieth century, about the Black American experience. The last, Radio Golf, premiered in April this year. In August, when Wilson revealed that he had terminal cancer, he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,"I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready." As well as winning two Pulitzer prizes, Wilson won many other awards, including the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1985, 1987, 1988), the Whiting Foundation Award (1986), the American Theatre Critics Award (1986, 1989, 1991), the Outer Circle Award (1987), the Drama Desk Award (1987), the John Gassner Award (1987), the Tony Award (1987) and the Helen Hayer Award (1988). Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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