Conversations with August Wilson

by Bryer, Jackson R.

• ISBN13: 9781578068319
• ISBN10: 1578068312
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Interviews with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning African American playwright (1945-2005) behind such masterpieces as Fences and The Piano Lesson

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Chronology	xvii
An Interview with August Wilson	3	(9)
Kim Powers
August Wilson's Bottomless Blackness	12	(7)
Michael Feingold
August Wilson	19	(19)
David Savran
Cool August: Mr. Wilson's Red-Hot Blues	38	(23)
Dinah Livingston
August Wilson: Playwright	61	(20)
Bill Moyers
Hurdling Fences	81	(9)
Dennis Watlington
Black Aesthetic: A Conversation with Playwright August Wilson	90	(11)
Abiola Sinclair
August Wilson: An Interview	101	(17)
Vera Sheppard
August Wilson Explains His Dramatic Vision: An Interview	118	(37)
Sandra G. Shannon
The Historical Perspective: An Interview with August Wilson	155	(17)
Richard Pettengill
Men, Women, and Culture: A Conversation with August Wilson	172	(16)
Nathan L. Grant
August Wilson: Bard of the Blues	188	(16)
Carol Rosen
An Interview with August Wilson	204	(19)
Bonnie Lyons
August Wilson on Playwriting: An Interview	223	(12)
Elisabeth J. Heard
Interview with August Wilson	235	(6)
Herb Boyd
A Conversation with August Wilson	241	(12)
Sandra G. Shannon
Dana A. Williams
A 10-Play Odyssey Continues with Gem of the Ocean	253	(4)
Maureen Dezell
Index	257