Occupation – Literary – Playwright
Tato Laviera (1951-2013)
Jesús Abraham “Tato” Laviera Sánchez, community activist, poet, declamador, playwright, author, and “a chronicler of life in El Barrio,” was...
Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Tale of Three Dumas Minidoc Alexandre Dumas fils was a prolific French author and playwright best known for...
George C. Wolfe (1954- )
George Costello Wolfe is one of the most celebrated American playwrights and directors of theater and film. Known for his...
Harold Cruse (1916-2005)
Harold Cruse, a leading intellectual in the second half of the 20th Century, was born in 1916 in Petersburg, Virginia....
Garland Anderson (1886-1939)
A pioneer playwright and moralistic philosopher of constructive thinking, Garland Anderson was the first African American known to have a...
August Wilson (1945-2005)
The fourth of seven children in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel, April 27, 1945 to...
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
James Arthur Baldwin, fiction writer, essayist, dramatist, and poet, was born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York during...
