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Author Biography:

August Wilson (b. 1945) was born in a Pittsburgh ghetto known as the Hill where he attended public schools. Disillusioned by the pervasive racism of several schools, he dropped out at age sixteen and worked at menial jobs. He nevertheless pursued a literary career, reading widely in the local library, where he discovered and was encouraged in his own literary aspirations by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and other African American writers. Drawn to the theater and inspired by the civil rights movement, in 1968 Wilson founded the Black Horizons Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota. More... (© LitLinks; )

Websites on August Wilson:

• August Wilson @ Dartmouth
  This website is devoted to the life, works, and influence of playwright August Wilson. His profound influence as a Montgomery Fellow here at Dartmouth College has motivated undergraduate students to create an ongoing dialogue about him
  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~awilson/ (Dartmouth College; )
  
  
• August Wilson - a timeline by Chris Rawson
  http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/19991216awtimeline9.asp (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; )
  
  
• Playwright: August Wilson by James Earl Jones
  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.awilson.html (CNN; )
  
  
• Biography of August Wilson
  http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/wilson_a.htm (Gale Group; )