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August Wilson
04.27.1945 - 10.02.2005August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
"I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean."
- August Wilson
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