All The Drama: “Fences” by August Wilson, 1987 Pulitzer Prize Winner

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Fences"
1987 Pulitzer winner “Fences”, by August Wilson

August Wilson Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson

Fences Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fences_(play)

The Fences script
https://www.amazon.com/Fences-August-Wilson/dp/0452264014/

August Wilson Century Cycle
https://smile.amazon.com/August-Wilson-Century-Cycle/dp/155936307X/

August Wilson Society
https://www.augustwilsonsociety.org/

“The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson” by Sandra G. Shannon
https://www.amazon.com/Dramatic-Vision-August-Wilson/dp/0882580698/

“August Wilson's Fences: A Reference Guide” by Sandra Garrett Shannon and Susan C.W. Abbotson
https://bookshop.org/p/books/august-wilson-s-fences-a-reference-guide-sandra-g-shannon/9111160?ean=9780313318801

“August Wilson: A Life” by Patti Hartigan
https://bookshop.org/p/books/august-wilson-a-life/18844226?ean=9781501180668

“Stage View; Where Writers Mold the Future of Theater” by Frank Rich, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/01/theater/stage-view-where-writers-mold-the-future-of-theater.html

“Hurdling Fences” by Dennis Watlington, Vanity Fair
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1989/4/hurdling-fences

“Been Here and Gone” by John Lahr, The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/16/been-here-and-gone

“August Wilson, The Art of Theater” interview with Bonnie Lyons and George Plimpton for The Paris Review
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/839/the-art-of-theater-no-14-august-wilson

“August Wilson, Theater's Poet of Black America, Is Dead at 60” by Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/theater/newsandfeatures/august-wilson-theaters-poet-of-black-america-is-dead-at-60.html

“The Ground Constanza Romero Stands On by Rob Weinert-Kendt, American Theatre
https://www.americantheatre.org/2016/06/20/the-ground-constanza-romero-stands-on/

Fences movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkDqj4aW4M

Pulitzer Prize ceremony, 1987
https://www.pulitzer.org/article/zounds-prizes-rita-dove-august-wilson-joseph-pulitzer-jr-and-more-all-film

The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson
https://smile.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-August-Companions-Literature-ebook/dp/B00AA8JQSY/

“The Ground On Which I Stand” documentary
https://smile.amazon.com/August-Wilson-Ground-Which-Stand/dp/B00T2QNKZA/

Conversations with August Wilson, edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig
https://bookshop.org/books/conversations-with-august-wilson/9781578068319

The Theatre of August Wilson by Alan Nadel
https://bookshop.org/books/the-theatre-of-august-wilson/9781472534439

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.