August Wilson: American Playwright and the Pittsburgh Cycle August Wilson August Wilson (1945–2005) was an influential American playwright best known for the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle, which dramatizes African-American life across the 20th century and ea…
Charles W. Chesnutt: African American Writer on Race, Passing, and the Postwar South Charles Chesnutt Profile of Charles W. Chesnutt, African American writer who examined race, racial passing, and post–Civil War Southern society through novels, stories, and essays including The Hou…
