How I Learned What I Learned
by August WilsonOriginally written and performed by August Wilson himself in 2003, How I Learned What I Learned is the autobiographical story of a young black artist's journey through the hardships of growing up in the Hill District, ultimately leading to his succ.
- First published
- 2022
- Publishers
- Theatre Communications Group· Incorporated
- Subjects
- Drama
About August Wilson
August Wilson was an American playwright. His literary legacy is the ten play series, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the twentieth century.Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel, Jr. in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the fourth of six children to German immigrant baker, Frederick August Kittel, Sr. and Daisy Wilson, an African American cleaning woman, from North Carolina. Earlier, Wilson's maternal grandmother walked from North Carolina to Pennsylvania in search of a better life. His mother raised the children alone by the time he was five in a two-room apartment above a grocery store at 1727 Bedford Avenue.August Kittel changed his name to August Wilson to honor his mother after his father's death in 1965. In 1968, Wilson co-founded the Black Horizon Theater in the Hill District of Pittsburgh along with his friend Rob Penny. His first play, Recycling, was performed for audiences in small theaters and public housing community centers. Among these early efforts was Jitney ,which he revised more than two decades later as part of his 10-play cycle on 20th century Pittsburgh.In 1976 Vernell Lillie, founder of the Kuntu Repertory Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh two years earlier, directed Wilson's The Homecoming. Wilson also co-founded the Kuntu Writers Workshop to bring African-American writers together and to assist them in publication and production. Both organizations are still active.In 1978 Wilson moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota at the suggestion of his friend director Claude Purdy, who helped him secure a job writing educational scripts for the Science Museum of Minnesota. In 1980, he received a fellowship for The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. Wilson had a long association with the Penumbra Theatre Company of St Paul, which gave the premieres of some Wilson plays.Wilson received many honorary degrees, including an honorary Doctor of Humanities from the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as a member of the University's Board of Trustees from 1992 until 1995.Wilson's best known plays are Fences (1985) which won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award), The Piano Lesson (1990) (a Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone.In 1994 Wilson left St Paul for Seattle, where he would develop a relationship with Seattle Repertory Theatre. Seattle Rep would ultimately be the only theater in the country to produce all of the works in his ten-play cycle and his one-man show How I Learned What I Learned.Wilson was married three times. His first marriage was to Brenda Burton from 1969 to 1972. They had one daughter, Sakina Ansari, born 1970. In 1981 he was married to Judy Oliver, a social worker, and divorced in 1990. Wilson's third marriage was in 1994 to costume designer, Constanza Romero, with whom he had his second daughter, Azula Carmen.In 2005, August Wilson received the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.Wilson reported that he had been diagnosed with liver cancer in June 2005 and been given three to five months to live. He passed away on October 2, 2005 at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, and was interred at Greenwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh on October 8, 2005....
Books
Each Man His Own Sultan
Hamish Wilson
Poet's Domain, Vol.35
J. Scott Wilson
Noelle and Grandma Go on a Picnic
Mikaela Wilson
Noelle and Grandma Go on a Picnic
Mikaela Wilson
Touch and Feelings
Naira Wilson
Dollar's Grand Dream
Kimberly Wilson
We Live Here
Wilson
Forensics and Clinical Applications of Solid Phase Extraction
Thomas F. August
Solid phase extraction (spe) has become a powerful and extensively used technique in the clean-up and concentration of samples in a wide variety of analytical techniques.
Dressing Up
Verity Wilson
Autumn Light
Catherine Wilson
Duplicity
Shawn Wilson
Night They Never Forgot / Their Barcelona Baby Bombshell
Scarlet Wilson
Penguin Readers Level 2
Jacqueline Wilson
Philosophy and Practical Education
John Wilson
The Plant Based Cookbook
Wilson B Barnes
Matthew 14
Walter T. Wilson
Me and My Shadow
Babs Wilson
Sweet Freedom's Plains
Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
Maltusheblan Gambit
Benjamin Wilson
Xa'igoi Saga, Novel Two
Jonathan Wilson
Wilhelm Von Siemens. ein Lebensbild
August Rotth
40 Days with the Fathers
Luke J. Wilson
Sometimes I Feel Lonely
Lakita Wilson
Soaring in Style
Jennifer Lane Wilson
Baby Sitter Information
Kellie WILSON
Sometimes I Feel Lonely
Lakita Wilson
Must Love Cats
Henley August
Graphic Novels Core Collection
HW Wilson
Wordperfect Office 2022
David Wilson
Summary of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Wilson Walter
Of Love and Other Maladies
Douglas Graham Wilson
Fiction Core Collection
HW Wilson
Túrning Red Coloring Book
Ben Wilson
Storytelling
Michael Wilson
Valley of Rue : After the Pretty Pox
August Ansel
What a Dog Knows
Susan Wilson
Public Schools and Private Practice
John Wilson
How I Got My Victory
Monekia Wilson
Understanding Research for Business Students
Jonathan Wilson
Complete Book of Fishing Systems
Geoff Wilson
Scandal of Holiness
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Flight of the Flower
Krista Wilson
Married Life
August Strindberg
Night They Never Forgot / Their Barcelona Baby Bombshell
Scarlet Wilson
Philosophy and Practical Education
John Wilson
Snowed in with the Surgeon
Scarlet Wilson
Sea Salt
Lea-Wilson Family
Shamans Way of Healing
August Thalhamer
Literacies of Design
Amy Wilson-Lopez
How to Crosshatch in Pen and Ink
August Lamm
Mouth to Mouth
Antoine Wilson
When the man whose life he saved, a renowned art dealer, takes him under his wing, jeff cook is initiated into his world, one where nothing is what it seems, in this dramatic novel that blurs the line between opportunity and exploitation, self-respect and self-delusion, and fact and fiction.
Industrial Clusters
Wilson, John F.
U. S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945
Sandra Wilson
Minority Report
D. Harlan Wilson
Two Kinds of Power
Patrick Wilson
Five Types of Legal Argument
Wilson Ray Huhn
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