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• August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned

  (and How What I Learned Has Led Me to Places I've Wanted to Go. That I Have Sometimes Gone Unwillingly Is the Crucible in Which Many a Work of Art Has Been Fired.)

  Wilson, August

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  The script of HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED, for your reading pleasure.

• In Black and White

  Conversations With African American Writers. Part Five August Wilson

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  In this documentary Wilson talks about his childhood, self-education, writing, and work on the Pittsburgh Cycle, also known as the American Century Cycle.

• The Ground on Which I Stand

  Wilson, August

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  In this 1996 keynote address, Wilson calls for Black artists to "seize the power over their own cultural identity and to establish permanent institutions that celebrate and preserve the singular achievements of African American dramatic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

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  This documentary explores the legacy of Wilson with interviews, dramatic readings and rare footage. Features James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Laurence Fishburne and Viola Davis.

• August Wilson's Twentieth-century Cycle Plays

  a Reader's Companion

  Sternlicht, Sanford, 1931-

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  This literary guide examines Wilson’s life as well as the themes, settings and characters in his American Century Cycle plays.

• August Wilson

  Writing and the Blues

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  Wilson has long acknowledged the influence of blues music on his work. In this 1989 interview, he explores how he drew on this musical form to craft authentic representations of Black life in his plays.

• Entertaining Race

  Performing Blackness in America

  Dyson, Michael Eric

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  Dyson's broad celebration of the enormous impact Black culture and politics has American life includes a chapter on the work of August Wilson.

• Fences

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  Denzel Washington directed and starred in this 2016 film adaptation of Wilson's play. The film garnered 4 Academy Award nominations, and Viola Davis won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rose Maxson.

• August Wilson

  a Life

  Hartigan, Patti

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  Hartigan drew on her interviews with Wilson, his friends, family, and colleagues, as well as her research into Wilson's life and ancestry to create this authoritative biography.

• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

  Music From the Netflix Film

  Marsalis, Branford

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  Wilson's appreciation for the blues is on full display in his 1982 play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. On this soundtrack to the film adaptation of the play, Branford Marsalis expertly recreates and reimagines the sound of blues icon Ma Rainey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Romare Bearden Reader

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  Wilson frequently cited his “Four B’s” of influence: the blues, Borges, Bearden and Baraka. Here novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights, including Wilson, reflect on painter-collagist Bearden's work and impact on Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Smoketown

  the Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

  Whitaker, Mark

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  This portrait of Black life and cultural excellence in Pittsburgh in the 20th century includes a chapter on Wilson and his American Century Cycle.

• Seattle Rep's HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED website

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  Originally performed by August Wilson himself, How I Learned What I Learned is a heartfelt theatrical memoir charting one man’s journey of self-discovery through adversity and what it means to be a Black artist in America. Helmed by…Read moreRead more of this annotation