![]() ![]() ![]() He wanted ‘Jitney’ to finally be on Broadway. “But August wanted two things to happen that hadn’t happened. “I think he felt proud of his achievements and faced death the way he faced life: courageously and uncompromisingly,” said Constanza Romero, Wilson’s widow, as well as his costume designer and all-around sounding board. ![]() And, oh yes, there were some platforms his most acclaimed work had yet to reach. But he had a new play he was fiddling with. When August Wilson received word in 2005 that he had inoperable Stage IV cancer, he was not just personally but professionally disconsolate: There was still so much work to do.Īt 60, the African American playwright had accomplished enough for a dozen lifetimes, completing the canon of 10 black-oriented plays known as the American Century Cycle - not to mention bagging two Pulitzer Prizes and a Tony Award. ![]()
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