Drama, African

Jitney

Name: Jitney
Author: August Wilson
ISBN: 9781559363044

by August Wilson, Ishmael Reed

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Synopsis

The eighth play of Wilson's Century Cycle, set in 1977.

New York Times

Thoroughly engrossing...Jitney hold us in charmed captivity.

About the Author, August Wilson

August Wilson has twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for his plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. All of his plays have received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, and Fences received the Tony Award as well. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the recipient of Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships, the Whiting Writers Award, the 1999 National Humanities Medal awarded by the President, and numerous honorary degrees.