Kolin, Philip C., ed.
American Playwrights Since 1945: A Guide to
Scholarship, Criticism, and Performance
. New York: Greenwood
Press, 1989.
Nadel, Alan, ed.
May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama
of August Wilson.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994.
Washington, M. Bunch, intro. by John A. Williams.
The Art of
Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual.
New York: Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., 1974.
Articles
Churnin, Nancy. “The Academic and the Dropout,”
Los Angeles
Times
, February 6, 1988.
DeVries, Hilary. “A Song in Search of Itself,”
American Theatre
,
January 1987, vol. 3, no. 10, 22–5.
Dorman, John L. “August Wilson’s Pittsburgh,”
New York Times
,
August 15, 2017.
Dyer, Ervin, and Monica Haynes, “Real-Life Drama Sur-
rounds Wilson’s Childhood Home,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
,
January 26, 2003.
Freeman, S. G. “A Voice from the Streets,”
New York Times Maga-
zine
, May 15, 1987, 36–50.
Lahr, John. “Been Here and Gone,”
New Yorker
, April 16, 2001,
50–65.
Malehorn, David. “How I Found August Wilson’s Carnegie
‘Diploma,’”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, October 9, 2011.
Wilson, August. “Feed Your Mind, the Rest Will Follow: An
Op-Ed Column,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, March 28, 1999.
Film/Video
August Wilson interview with Charlie Rose, shortly after the
opening of
Seven Guitars
, March 25, 1996. See youtube
.com/watch?v=7vb9Vg_WGi0.
“August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand,” PBS, Febru-
ary 24, 2015. See pbs.org/video/2365429059.
“The Piano Lesson,” directed by Lloyd Richards, Hallmark
Hall of Fame, (TV premiere) February 5, 1995. Hallmark
Home Entertainment (DVD) December 17, 2002.
“A World of Ideas: Writers” Interview with Bill Moyers, Season 1,
Ep. 14, Athena Studios, 1991. Available on Amazon at amzn
.to/2uNzCkJ or on Vimeo at vimeo.com/33300464.
Websites
National Endowment for the Humanities
neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals
/august-wilson
Article about Wilson for his 1999 NEH Medal Award.
PBS’s American Masters
pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/august-wilson-the-ground
-on-which-i-stand-scenes-and-synposes-of-august-wilsons
-10-play-cycle/3701
Play highlights, interview clips, Wilson biography, and time line.
Pittsburgh Music History
sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh
-music-story/jazz/hill-district
Archival photographs, maps, and a brief history of the heyday of the Hill
District and its rapid decline after the urban “renewal” of the 1960s.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
old.post-gazette.com/pg/03001/497623.stm#table
Archive of Wilson’s hometown newspaper, the
Pittsburgh Post-
Gazette
, with links to interviews, articles, photos, and more.
Historic Hill Institute
historichill.org
Preservation Organization of the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, with information about events and tours.
PLAYS BY AUGUST WILSON
(Dates written in parentheses)
Recycle
(1973)
Eskimo Song Duel: The Case of the Borrowed Wife; An Evening with Margaret
Mead; How Coyote Got His Special Power and Used It to Help the
People.
(date unknown; unpublished; written for the
Science Museum of Minnesota)
Black Bart and the Sacred Hills
(1977)
Fullerton Street
(written 1980; not produced)
The Homecoming
(1989)
The Coldest Day of the Year
(1989)
How I Learned What I Learned
(2002)
AUGUST WILSON’S PITTSBURGH CYCLE
Ten plays, each one set in a decade of the twentieth century
(Dates first performed in parentheses)
Gem of the Ocean
—1900s (2003)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
—1910s (1986)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
—1920s (1984)
The Piano Lesson
—1930s (1987)
Seven Guitars
—1940s (1995)
Fences
—1950s (1985)
Two Trains Running
—1960s (1990)
Jitney
—1970s (1982)
King Hedley II
—1980s (1999)
Radio Golf
—1990s (2005)
“I left Pittsburgh, but
Pittsburgh never left me.”
—August Wilson