THE PLAY Sonoma Valley High School（索诺玛山谷高中）.pdfVIP

AUGUST WILSON (b. 1945) was born in a slum in Pittsburgh and raised with his five brothers and sisters by his African American mother, Daisy Wilson, who supported her children by working as a janitor downtown in the county courthouse. His father, a white man, abandoned the family; Wilson remembered that he was a sporadic presence in our house. Wilson was also nurtured by his stepfather, David Bedford, who worked in the city sewer department. Bedford had been a football star in high school but spent twenty- three years in prison after killing a man in a robbery attempt. Wilson credits hi