Frederick August (Kittel) Wilson (1945 - 2005)

Born 27 Apr 1945 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 2 Oct 2005 at age 60 in Seattle, King County, Washington, United States

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Biography

August (Kittel) Wilson is Notable.

August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Plays in the series include, Jitney (1982), Fences (1984), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1986), The Piano Lesson (1987), King Hedley II (1999). ^[1]

Frederick August Kittel, Jr., was born April 27, 1945. He was the son of Frederick August Kittel, Sr., and Daisy Wilson. He took the surname of his mother Daisy Wilson after the death of his father Frederick Kittel, who had abandoned Daisy and their six children in August's youth.

He died of liver cancer October 2, 2005, at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, USA.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "August Wilson," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson (accessed August 27, 2017).
2. ↑ "Washington Death Index, 1965-2014," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLWM-8X6H : 13 July 2017), August Wilson, 02 Oct 2005, King, Washington, United States; from the Department of Health, Death Index, 1907-1960; 1965-2014, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives (https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Collections/TitleInfo/472 : n.d.); Citing Washington State Department of Health.
3. ↑ Berson, Misha. "Mr August Wilson." The Seattle Times (Washington), Monday, October 3, 2005. GenealogyBank.com (subscription required). Accessed 27 August 2017.

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