• WisdomPan-African Library
  • Home
Developer
  • Integrate the Wisdom
  • ManifestoNew
Future
  • Our Paths
Present
  • Our reality
  • Our goals (Agenda 2063)
  • Data audit
Past
  • The Archive
  • Search
  • Themes
Regions
  • Caribbean
  • Central Africa
  • Continental
  • Diaspora
  • Diaspora / West Africa
  • East Africa
  • North Africa
  • Pan-African
  • Southern Africa
  • West Africa
  • West Africa / Diaspora
Eras
  • Colonial
  • Colonial/Negritude
  • Contemporary
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Negritude
  • Post-colonial
  • Post-colonial/Negritude
  • Pre-colonial Oral Traditions
Genres
  • Anthology
  • Anthropology
  • Autobiography
  • Biography
  • Cultural Criticism
  • Cultural Theory
  • Drama
  • Drama/Poetry
  • Education
  • Essay
  • Feminist Theory
  • Fiction
  • Fiction/Poetry
  • Folklore
  • Folklore/Short Stories
  • Historical Fiction
  • History
  • Legal Theory
  • Literary Criticism
  • Media Theory
  • Memoir
  • Music History
  • Non-fiction
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Political Document
  • Political Economy
  • Political Philosophy
  • Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy
  • Short Stories
  • Sociology
  • Speech
  1. Home
  2. Author
  3. August Wilson
Back to Browse
10 works

August Wilson

DiasporaContemporaryDrama
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1984
August Wilson

Play set in 1927 Chicago recording studio exploring tensions between blues musicians and white management.

DiasporaDrama
Fences
1985
August Wilson

Play about Troy Maxson, former Negro League player, and his strained family relationships in 1950s Pittsburgh.

DiasporaDrama
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
1986
August Wilson

Play set in 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house where former slave searches for his wife.

DiasporaDrama
The Piano Lesson
1987
August Wilson

Play about siblings fighting over family piano carved with their ancestry during slavery.

DiasporaDrama
Two Trains Running
1990
August Wilson

Play set in 1969 Pittsburgh diner during Black Power era, examining community and change.

DiasporaDrama
Seven Guitars
1995
August Wilson

Play about blues guitarist Floyd Barton's final days in 1948 Pittsburgh.

DiasporaDrama
King Hedley II
1999
August Wilson

Play about ex-con trying to rebuild life in 1985 Pittsburgh Hill District.

DiasporaDrama
Gem of the Ocean
2003
August Wilson

Play set in 1904 about 285-year-old Aunt Ester and her spiritual cleansing of troubled man.

DiasporaDrama
Radio Golf
2005
August Wilson

Final play of Cycle about Black mayoral candidate and gentrification in 1990s Pittsburgh.

DiasporaDrama
Jitney
1982
August Wilson

Play about unlicensed cab drivers in 1970s Pittsburgh facing urban renewal displacement.

DiasporaDrama