Where’s the barbed wire?
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August Wilson: A Life
by Patti Hartigan.
Simon and Schuster, 531 pp., £30, August 2023,978 1 5011 8066 8 Show More
by Patti Hartigan.
Simon and Schuster, 531 pp., £30, August 2023,
“... know how they survived,’ Wilson told me. ‘How do you get to be seventy years old in America?’Patti Hartigan’s
rookie 530-page biography of Wilson brings to mind a line from Karl Kraus: ‘No ideas and the ability to express them, that’s a journalist.’ Hartigan, who was a theatre reviewer for the Boston ... ”
