August Wilson was a famous American writer. He left school in the ninth grade. In the late 1960s, Wilson built a theater and began to think of ways to make people know more about African-American life. He had the idea of a series of (系列) plays. Each of the plays showed how African-Americans lived.
The first play of this series is Ma Rainey's Black Bottom about black musicians in Chicago in the 1920s. Other plays in the series like Joe Turner's Come and Gone, are about the black in the 1910s; Fences is about a father and his son in the 1950s and The Piano Lesson is about how a family sold their treasure (珠宝) in the 1930s. For the last two plays mentioned above Wilson got Pulitzer Prizes.
King Hedley the Second, the eighth and the last play of the series, is set in the 1980s.
Both the black and the white like his plays now and his plays attract anyone who is interested in African-American life.
