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August Wilson is dead–the only good coming of his death is the harvest of wonderful obits

October 4th, 2005 · No Comments

Here from the Times (UK).


And many many others (courtesy Google News):






Editorial: August Wilson captured black life in US
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - 2 hours ago
August Wilson, a maestro of theater who did much of his mid-career work in St. Paul, was a courageous artist who brought authentic




August Wilson
Times Online, UK - 6 hours ago
AUGUST WILSON was not only the finest black dramatist America has yet produced but a dramatist whom posterity may well rate alongside Eugene O’Neill and




August Wilson (1945-2005)
Village Voice, NY - 6 hours ago
by Michael Feingold. August Wilson was born and raised in Pittsburgh. If you don’t know that, you’ve never seen one of his plays, virtually




The Passing Of An American Giant
CBS News - 7 hours ago
August Wilson died yesterday in Seattle. I doubt most Americans have ever heard of him. Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright.




August Wilson, 1945-2005: Playwright gave voice to black
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 7 hours ago
August Wilson, whose cycle of plays capturing the African American experience in the 20th century made him one of the country’s most admired playwrights, died




Playwright August Wilson, a master storyteller, dies at age 60
Detroit Free Press, United States - 12 hours ago
BY MARTIN F. KOHN. August Wilson, whose 10 plays about African-American life in the 20th Century, one for each decade, constitute




Bard of St. Paul bows out
San Jose Mercury News, United States - 13 hours ago
BY DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA. August Wilson, who rose from a lowly scriptwriter at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul to become




Playwright dies of cancer
Newsday, NY - 14 hours ago
BY BLAKE GREEN. August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled 20th century African-American life in soaring




August Wilson, 60, won 2 Pulitzers as playwright
San Jose Mercury News, United States - 14 hours ago
By Mike Boehm. August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who sought to distill virtually the entire African-American experience




Playwright chronicled experience of blacks in 20th century America
San Francisco Chronicle, United States - 17 hours ago
August Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who chronicled the 20th century African American experience in an epic series of 10 plays, died Sunday.




Playwright detailed black experience in 20th century
Chicago Sun-Times, United States - 18 hours ago
BY MICHAEL KUCHWARA. NEW YORK — Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th century




August Wilson, 60
Globe and Mail, Canada - 19 hours ago
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA. New York — August Wilson was a master storyteller, a playwright who fashioned his tales of the black struggle





Leading US playwright Wilson dies
BBC News, UK - 19 hours ago
Pulitzer Prize-winning US playwright August Wilson, who wrote a series of landmark dramas about 20th Century life in black America, has died.




Playwright August Wilson dies
New York Daily News, NY - 19 hours ago
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, a high school dropout who told stories of the African-American struggle during the 20th century in such




August Wilson, the poet of St. Paul, dies
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - 21 hours ago
August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose celebrated epic cycle chronicled the lives of blacks in 20th-century America, succumbed to liver




US playwright August Wilson dies
ABC Online, Australia - 22 hours ago
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson has died of liver cancer in Seattle at the age of 60. Wilson disclosed his illness




Pulitzer-prize winning US playwright Wilson dead
Sify, India - 23 hours ago
Los Angeles: The Pulitzer prize-winning American playwright August Wilson died on Sunday of liver cancer at a hospital in Seattle, said reports.




Award-winning US playwright August Wilson dies
ABC News - Oct 2, 2005
Oct 2, 2005 — SEATTLE (Reuters) – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, whose cycle of plays chronicling 20th-century African-American life




August Wilson, Theater’s Poet of Black America, Is Dead at 60
New York Times, United States - Oct 2, 2005
August Wilson, who chronicled the African-American experience in the 20th century in a series of plays that will stand as a landmark in the history of black




August Wilson, the poet of St. Paul, dies
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Oct 2, 2005
August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose celebrated epic cycle chronicled the lives of a cohort of blacks in 20th-century America, succumbed




Award-winning US playwright August Wilson dies
ABC News - Oct 2, 2005
Oct 2, 2005 — SEATTLE (Reuters) – August Wilson, an award-winning playwright whose work focused on the lives of black Americans, died of liver cancer on




Playwright August Wilson Dies
FOX News - Oct 2, 2005
NEW YORK — Playwright August Wilson (search), whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America included such landmark dramas




August Wilson, US Playwright on Black Segregation, Dies
Bloomberg - Oct 2, 2005
Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) — August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright whose works chronicled a century of racial segregation




Playwright August Wilson Dies of Cancer
San Francisco Chronicle, United States - Oct 2, 2005
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Writer. Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th




Wilson’s plays about black experience
San Jose Mercury News, United States - Oct 2, 2005
The 10 plays written by August Wilson chronicling the black experience in America in the 20th century, and the decade in which each was set.




Playwright August Wilson dies of cancer
San Jose Mercury News, United States - Oct 2, 2005
NEW YORK – Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America included such landmark dramas as “Fences




August Wilson
The Herald, UK - 2 hours ago
Pulitzer prize-winning dramatist August Wilson was a master storyteller, who chronicled tales of the black struggle in twentieth-century United States through




Landmark playwright won 2 Pulitzer Prizes
Lexington Herald Leader, KY - 2 hours ago
By Michael Kuchwara. Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the lives of blacks in 20th-century America included




Honored Playwright August Wilson Dead at 60
Washington File, DC - 3 hours ago
By Michael Bandler. Washington — American playwright August Wilson, who died of liver cancer October 2, once observed of his plays




Plays chronicled black experience in 20th century
philly.com, PA - 3 hours ago
By Michael Kuchwara. Playwright August Wilson, 60, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America




Playwright August Wilson Dies At 60
NBC4.TV, CA - 5 hours ago
NEW YORK — August Wilson, a Tony Award-winning playwright who fashioned his tales of the black struggle in 20th-century America into a monumental 10-play cycle




Writer is stilled, but not his song
Calendar Live (subscription), CA - 5 hours ago
By Charles McNulty, Special to The Times. His ending had the kind of stinging resonance we’ve come to expect from his plays. After




Voice of voiceless will echo in theater forever
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription), GA - 5 hours ago
If American theater is a forest of weeping willows, flowery perennials and scrubby undergrowth, then August Wilson was its giant sequoia: a strapping specimen





Playwright August Wilson Dies
Vibe - 7 hours ago
August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who composed plays that dealt with 20th-century African-American life, passed away from liver cancer on




Broadway Dims Lights Oct. 4 To Honor Celebrated Playwright August
Broadway World, NY - 8 hours ago
In honor of the passing of the great American playwright August Wilson, Broadway theatres will dim their lights Oct. 4. On par with




August Wilson Dies
All Headline News - 8 hours ago
Seattle, WA (AHN) – Award winning playwright August Wilson dies Sunday at the age of 60 from liver cancer at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.





Playwright August Wilson’s ‘come and gone’
Earthtimes.org - 8 hours ago
Pulitzer prize winner playwright August Wilson, famous for his plays revolving around the ails of 20th century African-Americans, passed away on October 2 at




Acclaimed playwright August Wilson dies at 60
San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 9 hours ago
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS. (KRT) – August Wilson, who expanded the reach of African-American dramatic literature more so than any other




Playwright August Wilson, a master storyteller, dies at age 60
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription), WA - 10 hours ago
August Wilson, the celebrated American playwright who brought the black experience to the stage in award-winning dramas that fused deep commitment with fiery




Playwright August Wilson Dies
WNYC, NY - 11 hours ago
NEW YORK, NY, October 03, 2005 — Playwright August Wilson has died. Wilson, who chronicled African-American experiences, announced





Legendary Playwright August Wilson Dead At 60
NY1, NY - 12 hours ago
Wilson is best known for chronicling the black experience in 20th century America in a series of plays, including “Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The




‘Burgh playwright dies at 60
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 11 hours ago
By By Alice T. Carter. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Hill District native August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicled




Playwright August Wilson dies from cancer at age 60
Alameda Times-Star, CA - 11 hours ago
By Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press. NEW YORK — Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience

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