| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxii, 260 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Literary conversations series
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Interview with August Wilson / Kim Powers -- August Wilson's bottomless blackness / Michael Feingold -- August Wilson / David Savran -- Cool August : Mr. Wilson's red-hot blues / Dinah Livingston -- August Wilson : playwright / Bill Moyers -- Hurdling fences / Dennis Watlington -- Black aesthetic : a conversation with playwright August Wilson / Abiola Sinclair -- August Wilson : an interview / Vera Sheppard -- August Wilson explains his dramatic vision : an intervier / Sandra G. Shannon -- Historical perspective : an interview with August Wilson / Richard Pettengill -- Men, women, and culture : a conversation with August Wilson / Nathan L. Grant -- August Wilson : bard of the blues / Carol Rosen -- Interview with August Wilson / Bonnie Lyons -- August Wilson on playwriting : an interview / Elisabeth J. Heard -- Interview with August Wilson / Herb Boyd -- Conversation with August Wilson / Sandra G. Shannon and Dana A. Williams -- 10-play odyssey continues with Gem of the ocean / Maureen Dezell. |
| Summary |
Collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"-- the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards. |
| Subject |
Wilson, August -- Interviews.
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Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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African Americans in literature.
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Historical drama -- Authorship.
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| Added Author |
Bryer, Jackson R.
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Hartig, Mary C.
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| ISBN |
1578068312 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1578068304 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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