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    A Song for August: The Inspiring Life of Playwright August Wilson
    A Song for August: The Inspiring Life of Playwright August Wilson
    A Song for August: The Inspiring Life of Playwright August Wilson
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    A Song for August: The Inspiring Life of Playwright August Wilson

    By Sally Denmead and Alleanna Harris

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    An ode to one of America's foremost Black playwrights, August Wilson, and a meditation on culture, erasure, and what ultimately drives an artist's desire to create.

    August Wilson grew up open to the creative inspiration in everything he encountered: in library books, in music, in artworks, in the lively conversations overheard in the restaurants and barbershops lining the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood. August paid attention. He listened. And when he got older, he got ideas about what to do with everything he’d seen and heard — ideas that would make him one of the greatest playwrights in American history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateAug 6, 2024
    ISBN9781646144426
    A Song for August: The Inspiring Life of Playwright August Wilson
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    Sally Denmead

    Sally Denmead is an opera singer, director, and actor who moved from Brooklyn to Pittsburgh, where she fell in love with the plays of August Wilson. This is her first book. Author Residency: Pittsburgh, PA

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