August Wilson was born in 1945 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most acclaimed American playwrights of the 20th century. His plays have won two Pulitzer Prizes for drama, one for Fences and the other for The Piano Lesson, eight New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards and Broadway's highest honor, the Tony Award. He married three times. His first wife was Brenda Burton, a Muslim, with whom he had a daughter named Sakina Ansari. After the marriage ended in 1972, he later married his second wife, Judy Oliver, a white social worker, who supported him fiscally during the early years of his career as a playwright. After divorcing in 1990, he later married his third wife, Constanza Romero, a costume designer, with whom he had a daughter named Azula Carmen. He died of liver cancer on October 2, 2005. Two weeks later, the Virginia Theater in New York City was renamed the August Wilson Theater in his honor. Then, on May 30, 2007, the State of Pennsylvania designated his childhood home as a historic landmark. His mother's name was Daisy, similar to Rose, it is the name of a flower that symbolizes the love, kindness, care and nurturing that mothers show to their children. She had to practically raise four children alone due to a lack of support from her husband. She is an example of how women are silenced. She was in an interracial marriage, which forced them to move to a new neighborhood where she was the victim of racial prejudice. During this time, whenever someone became a victim of racial prejudice, people would usually throw bricks through the windows to intimidate them into leaving, so this may have been one of the issues her mother faced, in addition to feeling out of place and receiving stares. embittered by others. neighborhood