"Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues."

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Source: Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, believermag.com. November 1, 2004.

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August Wilson

Playwright, Screenwriter

August Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright known for his powerful exploration of African American life through his ten-play cycle, 'The Pittsburgh Cycle.'

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