Description: Explores Pittsburgh's Influence on the Life and Work of the Playwright of the Acclaimed American Century Cycle
Review Quotes: August Wilson belongs among Shakespeare, Goethe, and Ibsen as one of the great playwrights of all time. Laurence A. Glasco has uncovered the life and labor behind the art. In August Wilson's American Century, we witness the writer as a Pittsburgh boy exploring the library and playing baseball, a young poet exploring his Black identity in the 1960s, and a playwright drinking coffee and smoking in Seattle coffee shops as, against all odds, he writes another award-winning Broadway hit. Glasco has expanded the scholarship on Wilson to include missing pieces from Pittsburgh, his youth, and his place among Black intellectuals. A lively must-read for anybody interested in Wilson, Pittsburgh, or the American stage.--John W. Miller, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Last Manager