Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson has been diagnosed with liver cancer and told a newspaper in his native Pittsburgh that he is dying.
Wilson, 60, who lives in Seattle, was diagnosed with the ailment in June.
"It's not like poker, you can't throw your hand in," Wilson told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story published Friday. "I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready."
Wilson has recently been completing his 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America -- one play for each decade.
Two plays in the cycle, "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson," earned Pulitzer Prizes. The 10th play, "Radio Golf," is now running at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/08/26/people.august.wilson.ap/index.html
Wilson, 60, who lives in Seattle, was diagnosed with the ailment in June.
"It's not like poker, you can't throw your hand in," Wilson told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story published Friday. "I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready."
Wilson has recently been completing his 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America -- one play for each decade.
Two plays in the cycle, "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson," earned Pulitzer Prizes. The 10th play, "Radio Golf," is now running at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/08/26/people.august.wilson.ap/index.html