Summary
"Ever since Ma Rainey's Black Bottom captivated Broadway audiences, August Wilson established himself as the most important American playwright of the last fifty years. His decade-by-decade cycle of ten plays about the African American experience in the twentieth century put Black life center stage,... Full description
- Prologue
- The blood's memory
- The crossroads of the world
- Something is not always better than nothing
- A period of reinvention
- A road marked with signposts
- Learning to listen
- The launchpad of American theater
- Living on mother's prayer
- A fastball on the outside corner
- Shining like new money
- What do you do with your legacy?
- Pick up the ball
- "You a big man"
- The ground on which I stand
- A master jitney driver
- The struggle continues
- An uphill battle in the basement
- Keeping the tradition alive
- Wherever you are, I'm here
- Afterword.