August Wilson

August Wilson

Read! In the name of thy lord, who created –

Created man from a clot.

Read and thy lord is most bountiful –

Who taught man by the pen.

Taught man that which he knew not.

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Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America included such landmark dramas as "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," died Sunday of liver cancer, a family spokeswoman said. He was 60.