August Wilson Promoted to Glory

CHARLES ISHERWOOD of the New York Times reported in an article,"August Wilson, Theater's Poet of Black America, Is Dead at 60"

August Wilson, who chronicled the African-American experience in the 20th century in a series of plays that will stand as a landmark in the history of black culture, of American literature and of Broadway theater, died yesterday at a hospital in Seattle. He was 60 and lived in Seattle.