August Wilson, who was born in 1945 and died in 2005, is considered to be one of the greatest playwrights in American history. During his lifetime, he created what he called the Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of ten plays, and each one represents a different decade of the 20th century. Wilson’s plays are all set in Pittsburgh, PA (where he was born) and focus on the African American experience. Fences, which debuted on Broadway in 1987 and won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award, depicts the late 1950s when “the hot winds of change that would make the sixties a turbulent, racing, dangerous, and provocative decade had not yet begun to blow full” (Richards).

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