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Article: AUGUST WILSON'S PLAYS DRAW TOP AWARD.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- September 22, 1999
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Seattle playwright August Wilson is one of eight Americans who will receive National Endowment for the Humanities medals from President Clinton next week.
``I found out about it last week,'' Wilson said yesterday, when the awards were announced. ``As I understand it, the award isn't for any particular piece of work, but for my plays taken as a whole.'' He's right. The medals are awarded to those whose works are deemed culturally enriching.
Wilson - along with film director Steven Spielberg, journalist Jim Lehrer, writer/radio host Garrison Keillor, political philosopher John Rawls, Southern scholar Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, journalist/biographer Taylor ...