August Wilson: A Life
Patti Hartigan
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August Wilson: A Life
Patti Hartigan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Masterful.
An invaluable and highly absorbing new biography.
[Hartigan's] book is an achievement: It’s solid and well reported. But it’s dutiful. It lacks ebullience and critical insight. The writing is slack and, by the second half, the clichés are falling so heavily you need a hat.
Glorious.
While Wilson enjoyed mythologizing his own life, this glowing biography sifts fact from fiction. Wilson was always a poet; his last words to his daughter were, 'It is beautiful. It is beautiful.' As is this invaluable biography..
A worthy and overdue first biography that will trigger new conversations about a magnificent playwright and the origins of his talent..
There probably won’t be a better-written biography of the great playwright August Wilson (1945–2005) than theater critic Hartigan’s remarkable book.
...engagingly traces his family history from slavery onward, giving us a play-by-play of Wilson's artistic growth and the prickly restlessness that roiled his soul. A former theater critic at the Boston Globe, Hartigan writes in a breezy, chatty style; her book is chock full of vignettes and anecdotes. A Life is absorbing as she gives us his genetic, literary and spiritual provenance.
...riveting.
Engrossing.
Appreciative, well-researched.