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Born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1945. The African American playwright won Pulitzers for Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990) which were stories that depicted celebrate the history and poetry of African Americans.
August Wilson’s father did not live with the family, so he took his mother’s maiden name in honor of her. Living in predominantly white communities, Wilson dropped out of school and spent most of his time at the library.
As he tried to further his career as a writer, he worked as a cook, porter, a gardener and a dishwasher. He later founded the Black Horizon Theater in Pittsburgh with his friend. He began to write and produce more of his plays. He wrote more than 16 plays. He won a Tony for Fences and several awards and honors. He died in 2005 of liver cancer.
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Her pen name was J California Cooper, but Joan Cooper wrote more than 17 plays, novels and short stories. Born in Berkeley, California in 1931, she tried to be careful not to give out too much personal information.
She was the Black Playwright of the Year which led to other amazing things. Alice Walker advised her to try her hand at writing books and it turned out to be a good thing. Cooper won American Book Award for Homemade Love, James Baldwin Writing Award, and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association.
Her short story Funny Valentines was made into a television movie starring Alfre Woodard and Loretta Devine.
“I’m a Christian” Cooper told a newspaper, “That’s all I am. If it came down to Christianity and writing, I’d let the writing go. God is bigger than a book,” Cooper said in the Washington Post in 2000.
She died at the age of 82 in 2014.
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