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Article: AUGUST WILSON'S SECOND ACT NOTED AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER REORDERS HIS LIFE AND HIS CAREER.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- December 30, 1997
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Researching August Wilson doesn't really prepare you for meeting August Wilson.
His listing in the 51st edition of Who's Who is a respectable 2 inches of very small print about writing awards - two Pulitzer Prizes for drama, a Tony award, a Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, to name a few.
Send his name into cyberspace and the printer spews out interviews and reviews of his plays along with snippets of personal information: A role model for African American writers, a man influenced by the blues - a music form he calls ``the best literature that black Americans have'' - a writer who seems to give interviews only in cafes and coffee ...