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August Wilson co-founded Pittsburgh’s Black Horizon Theater and wrote a cycle of ten plays hailed as a unique triumph in American literature. The plays cover each decade of the 20th century, and most focus on African American life in the Hill District. Two of the plays, "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson," won Pulitzer Prizes for best drama in 1987 and 1990, and "Fences" also won Broadway's Tony Award. This site is his birthplace.
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