A character created by this author kills Pernell for continually calling him "Champ".
A character created by this author kills Pernell for continually calling him "Champ". This author wrote a play in which that character's son sells stolen refrigerators to fund a store he hopes to open with his friend Mister. In another play, he created a character whose obsession with her dead husband Crawley frustrates her suitor Avery Brown. He created a "washer of souls" named Aunt Ester Tyler, who dies at age 366 in (*) King Hedley II. In one of his plays, Sutter's ghost is driven away by Berniece, who opposes Boy Willie's efforts to sell a musical instrument. In his most famous play, Cory is banned from playing football by his father, a former baseball player and current garbage man named Troy Maxson. For 10 points, name this African-American playwright whose "Pittsburgh Cycle" includes The Piano Lesson and Fences.
A character created by this author kills Pernell for continually calling him "Champ".
August Wilson [or Frederick August Kittel, Jr.]