August Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was his second Pulitzer, following Fences, which won in 1987. Wilson was a major playwright known for his Pittsburgh Cycle—a series of ten plays depicting African American life in each decade of the 20th century. Along with the Pulitzer wins, he also received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
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