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Feed your mind : a story of August Wilson

Feed your mind : a story of August Wilson

Bryant, Jen, 1960- author.
Book 2019

A celebration of August Wilson's journey from a child in Pittsburgh to one of America's greatest playwrights August Wilson (1945-2005) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who had a particular talent for capturing the authentic, everyday voice of Black Americans. As a child, he read off soup cans and cereal boxes, and when his mother brought him to the library, his whole world opened up. After facing intense prejudice at school from b...

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ISBN:
9781419736537
1419736531
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
Contents:
Act one: the Hill District, Pittsburgh
Breaking the code
Wylie Avenue Branch, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
"When it rains, it pours"
Relocation
Detour
Schooled
Now What?
Prove it!
Act two: Rows
Feed your mind --What's in a name? --Poet of the hill
Art on Centre Avenue
Friends can be persistent
Goin' up North
Voices
Bits and pieces
A very good recipe --Process
Arriving
Cycle
Author's note
Time line
LCCN:
2018047568
Control Number:
2882269
Other Authors:
Chapman, Cannaday, illustrator
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