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 was Mu Ruiney's Black Bottom about black musicians in Chicago in the 1920s. Other plays in the scribes like Joe Turner's Come and Gone, were about the blacks in the 1910s Fences , which was about a father and his son in the 1950s and The Piano' Lesson, was about how a family sold their treasure(珠宝) in the 1930s. For the last two of these plays Wilson got Pulitzer Prizes.
King Hedley the Second, the eighth and the last play of the scribes, set in the 1980s. Both the blacks and the whites like his plays now and his plays attract anyone who is interested in African-American life.
