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Sources about August Wilson

Author information is very important when doing a critical analysis of a work, especially when you are asked to provide a brief biography of the author or a bibliography. The resources listed here will help you to find information about authors. You may also want to search for the author's name (last name, first name) in a subject search of the LCCC Library Catalog.

Black Literature Criticism: "August Wilson"
ISBN: 9781414431703
Publication Date: 2008
Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.
Concise Major 21st-Century Writers: "August Wilson" by Tracy L. Matthews (Editor)
ISBN: 9780787675394
Publication Date: 2006
Detailed biographical information on approximately 700 authors. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, critical sources and authors' comments and/or informative essays about their lives and work.
August Wilson's Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays by Sanford Sternlicht
ISBN: 0896729001
Publication Date: 2015
A short literary guide to one of this country’s greatest African American dramatists.
August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey by Kim Pereira
ISBN: 0252064291
Publication Date: 1995
In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.

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