August Wilson Research Paper

August Wilson, whose real name is Frederick August Kittel, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 27, 1945. He died on October 2nd, 2005. His mother, Daisy Wilson was African American; while his father, Frederick Kittel was a German Immigrant. When he was just 4 years old, his mother taught him how to read. He was eager to learn more and to get his library card a year later. When his parents got divorced, it forced his mother and his siblings to move to a white suburb in Oakland. He bounced around at so many schools when he was young, until he dropped out at the age of 15 and began educating himself at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh.
By the time Wilson was 20, he knew that he wanted to be a writer. When Frederick Kittel Sr. died in 1965, August changed his name to August
He bought his first typewriter and moved into a boarding house on Bedford Ave. in Pittsburg. He began writing and submitting his poetry for publication with that typewriter and in 1968 he co-founded a theater company in the Pittsburgh Hill which is where he grew up at. His friend Rob Penny, a playwright and a teacher, helped Wilson stage his first play called Recycling in 1973. In 1978, August moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where he found a job as a paid writer. He wrote about Native American stories as a scriptwriter for the Science Museum of Minnesota. When he was there he wrote another play called Jitney; which was a drama taken place in a Pittsburg taxi station.
August’s most famous play, Fences, takes place in 1957. The characters Troy Maxson and his friend Jim Bono are drinking a bottle of whiskey and sharing stories on a friday night. Rose, Troy’s wife, tells him that their son Cory is being recruited to play