Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
August Wilson
Born: April 27, 1945
Died: October 2, 2005 (aged 60)
Bio: August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
Known for:
- Fences (1986)
- The Piano Lesson (1988)
- Jitney (2001)
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1985)
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984)