August Wilson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

August Wilson

American playwright

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1945

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 02-Oct-2005

Profession: screenwriter, poet, playwright

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century.