August Wilson Biography

Bloom, Harold. August Wilson. New York: Chelsea House, 2002. Print. Bloom opens his book with a user's guide, notes, an introduction and a biography of Wilson's. He chooses Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He gives each play a plot summary, a list of characters and a more than one critical essays by many critics like Sandra Shannon and Kim Pereira. He also adds the ideas and themes covered in the plays. The book is one of Bloom's Major Dramatists Series.

Bogumil, Mary L. Understanding August Wilson. South Carolina: Library of Congress, 1999. Print. Bogumil tackles Wilson's plays thouroughly in regards to the their thematic concerns. She also places them within the American drama field and analyses the unique African-American lives the plays picture. Fences as well as The Piano Lesson and Seven Guitars are among the six plays introduces. Bogumil encloses a preface, acknowledgement, notes, index and a bibliography therein.

Graver, David. Drama for a New South Africa: Seven Plays. Indiana: Author House, 1999. Print. Graver starts with an acknowledgement, introduction, the seven plays, like:

African American Dramatists: An A to Z Guides. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004. Print. Emmanuel here introduces a glossary of the Africa-American dramatists. There is a preface, an index, an 'about the contributors' segment and a selected biography. Dramatists' names included are about sixty-two like: August Wilson, Charles Gordone, Adrienne Kennedy, Oyamo and Richard wright. For each dramatis, Nelson provides a biography, major works and themes, critical appreciations, bibliography as well as aiding additional