TY - SER
KW - waste collectors
KW - Negro league baseball
KW - Josh Gibson (1911-47)
KW - Black Americans
AU - August Wilson
AB - Troy Maxson, a proud and embittered garbageman and ex-Negro Baseball League player, is constantly at odds with family and friends.
C1 - 1957-65
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Hill District; Middle Hill; Crawford Grill; Homestead
C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Sports; Psychological
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N1 - <em>Fences</em> won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 1987.
N2 - Troy Maxson, a proud and embittered garbageman and ex-Negro Baseball League player, is constantly at odds with family and friends.
PB - New American Library
PP - New York
PY - 1986
RN - August Wilson (1945-2005), born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. He died in Seattle and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in O’Hara Twp., Allegheny County.
EP - 101 p.
TI - Fences
ER -