Hundreds Join to Mourn Playwright Wilson
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Admirers of playwright August Wilson vowed at his funeral to make sure future generations would hear Wilson’s tales of black struggle in America.
The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Wilson died of liver cancer Oct. 1 in Seattle. He was 60.
“You will not be a footnote in American history. We guarantee the young kids will know who August Wilson is,” Kenny Leon, artistic director for the True Colors Theater Company in Atlanta, told several hundred dignitaries, theater celebrities and others in Wilson’s hometown of Pittsburgh for his funeral.
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