biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1945– )
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. A writer who never finished high school, he won two Pulitzer Prizes for his plays, which depict the African-American experience in America: Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1988). Later works include Two Trains Running (1990) and Seven Guitars (1996). He founded Minnesota's Black Horizons Theatre Company. His Ma Rainey's Black Bottom won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1984–5. |
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