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Also Known As Frederick August Kittel
Born April 27, 1945 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died October 2, 2005 (aged 60)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “Fences” • “Gem of the Ocean” • “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” • “King Hedley II” • “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” • “Radio Golf” • “Seven Guitars” • “The Piano Lesson” • “Two Trains Running”

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August Wilson, 2003
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis sit on wooden steps outside a brick house in a scene from the film Fences; Washington gestures while Davis knits with blue yarn.
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