Charles Fuller

Charles H. Fuller, Jr. ( born March 5, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American playwright who for his play A Soldier 's Play was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Biography

After visiting the Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia, he studied 1956-1958 at Villanova University and performed in connection 1959-1962 his military service in the U.S. Army. Later he graduated from 1965 to 1967 a postgraduate degree in Fine Arts at La Salle University and graduated with a Doctor of Fine Arts ( DFA ) from. In 1967, he was also co-founder of the African- American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia.

Then he took up his work as a writer and published his drama debut in 1968 with The Village: A Party (1968). In the following years numerous other works, including The Rise (1969 ) appeared, In My Many Names and Days (1972 ), In The Deepest Part of Sleep ( 1974), Candidate ( 1974), First Love (1975 ), Sunflower Majorette (1975 ), The Lay Out Letter ( 1975), The Brownsville Raid ( 1976), which was based on a true story about the involvement of a regiment of the U.S. Army during riots in Brownsville in 1906, and Sparrow in Flight (1978).

His piece Zooman and the Sign ( 1979) was in 1981 with the Obie Award while he was awarded for the subsequent stage play A Soldier 's Play from the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1982. At the Academy Awards in 1985 he was for Sergeant Waters - A Soldiers Story (A Soldier's Story) nominated in the Adapted Screenplay category. There were nominations for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor ( Adolph Caesar ).

In the following years several other plays such as Eliot 's Coming (1988 ), We ( 1988), Sally (1989 ), Prince ( 1989), Jonquil ( 1990) and Burner 's Frolic (1990 ) published.

The pieces of Fuller, who is also a member of the Writers Guild of America, are characterized by its unselfconscious, insightful examination of relationships, particularly between whites and coloreds and between colored and white-dominated bureaucracy.

External links and sources

  • Biography (Pennsylvania State University)
  • Biography ( The Kelly Writers House)
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, p 568, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Drama
  • Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Military person (United States Army )
  • Americans
  • Born in 1939
  • Man
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