Fences by August Wilson
FENCES BY AUGUST WILSON Brief background of the playwright August Wilson whose Original name was Fredrick August Kit tel was born on April 27, 1945 and died October 2, 2005. He was an American playwright, author of a Cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20 th century, and he wrote about black American life. Wilson grew up in Pittsburgh, a lively poor neighborhood which became the setting in most of his plays. The complexity of Wilson’s childhood experience and race relation reflected in his writings. His mother was black, while his father was white and his stepfather, David Bradford was black also. The suburb Hazelwood where they lived was dominated by whites and Wilson and his families are the target of racial threats. He quit school at age 15,...