August Wilson
Sign in to saveAmerican playwright (1945-2005)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1945
- Died
- 2005
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Piano Lesson (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Fences (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Discovering Theatre
- Two Trains Running
- Seven guitars
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 35
- Total plays
- 90
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,882x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,528x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 33,718x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,514x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,719x
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Quotes
- “Jazz in itself is not struggling…That is, the music itself is not struggling. It and the baseball history you talk about are two anchors of the African American cultural community. It’s the attitude that’s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.augustwilson.net
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- Commons category
- August Wilson
- date of birth
- 1945-04-27
- date of death
- 2005-10-02
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Categories
1945 births2005 deaths20th-century African-American writers20th-century American dramatists and playwrights21st-century African-American writersAfrican-American CatholicsAfrican-American dramatists and playwrightsAmerican Book Award winnersAmerican people of German descentCentral Catholic High School (Pittsburgh) alumniConverts to IslamCulture of PittsburghDeaths from liver cancer in Washington (state)Members of the American Academy of Arts and LettersNational Humanities Medal recipientsPulitzer Prize for Drama winnersTony Award winnersWriters from PittsburghWriters from Saint Paul, Minnesota