http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/10/02/wilson.obit.ap/index.htmlNEW YORK (AP) -- Playwright August Wilson, who won a best-play Tony Award and two Pulitzer Prizes, died Sunday of liver cancer, a family spokeswoman said. He was 60.
Wilson's epic 10-play cycle chronicled the black experience in 20th-century America, including such landmark dramas as "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
He died at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, surrounded by his family, said Dena Levitin, Wilson's personal assistant. The playwright had disclosed in late August that his illness was inoperable and he had only a few months to live.
"We've lost a great writer, I think the greatest writer that our generation has seen, and I've lost a dear, dear friend and collaborator," said Kenny Leon, who directed the Broadway production of "Gem of the Ocean" as well as Wilson's most recent play, "Radio Golf," which just concluded a run in Los Angeles.
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