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Amany Abdel Sabour Professor I. A. Abdel Ghani Contemporary American Literature 1 January 2008 August Wilson; A True Chronicler of Afro-American History, With special reference to "The Piano Lesson" August Wilson (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, and he is one of seven American playwrights to win two Pulitzer prizes. He is America's finest black dramatist, whose plays chronicled the lives of Afro-Americans through the 20th century. His "singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays-two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama-dubbed 'The Pittsburgh Cycle' "(August Wilson,Wikipedia), through which Wilson is depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American experience in the 20th century. This cycle of plays, which is the main focus in this paper, is also referred to as his "Century Cycle" for which he will be remembered - each play, is set in a different decade of the 20th century, and...

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