​August Wilson, The Art of Theater No. 14

 
“August Wilson has been referred to (by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) as ‘the most celebrated American playwright now writing, and . . . certainly the most accomplished black playwright in this nation’s history.’ Earlier this fall the beneficiary of Mr. Gates’s praise was in Atlanta to oversee the production of one of his plays. He took time off to meet for lunch at the Sheraton Hotel’s Fourteenth Street Bar, arriving in a black turtleneck sweater under a tweed coat. The tables in the bar are set up on a balcony overlooking the yellowgold emporium that is the hotel lobby. ...”

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