Question: Fences is a 1985 play by an American playwright who died in what year?

Context articles: The Chip Woman's Fortune
August Wilson
Conversations on a Homecoming
Sarah Ruhl
Sam Shepard
Fences (play)
The Year of the Dragon (play)
The Golden Age (Louis Nowra play)
A Quiet End
Richard Stockton (playwright)

The Chip Woman’s Fortune is a 1923 one act play written by American playwright Willis Richardson.
 The play was produced by The Ethiopian Art Players and is historically important as the first serious work by an African American playwright to be presented on Broadway.
 Although Broadway had seen African American musical comedies and revues, it had never seen a serious drama.
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, "The Pittsburgh Cycle", for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
 Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century.
Conversations on a Homecoming is a 1985 play by Irish playwright Tom Murphy.
 Premiered by the Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland in a production directed by Garry Hynes.
 As one of the great Irish plays set in a pub, its influence can be seen in more recent plays such as "The Weir" by Conor McPherson.
Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist.
 Among her most popular plays are "Eurydice" (2003), "The Clean House" (2004), and "In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)" (2009).
 She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career.
 Two of her plays have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Play.
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director whose body of work spanned half a century.
 He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most given to any writer or director.
 He wrote 44 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.
 Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play "Buried Child".
 He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff" (1983).
 Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. "
New York" magazine described him as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson.
 Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle".
 Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, "Fences" explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes.
 The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.
 The play was first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 1983 National Playwrights Conference and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985.
The Year of the Dragon is a play written by Chinese American playwright Frank Chin.
 It is one of the first plays by an Asian American playwright to be produced on a mainstream New York stage.
 It premiered in 1974 at the American Place Theatre, and starred Randall Duk Kim, who had played the lead in Chin's earlier play, "The Chickencoop Chinaman".
 The rest of the cast included Pat Suzuki, Tina Chen, Conrad Yama, Lilah Kan, Doug Higgins, and Keenan Shimizu.
The Golden Age is a 1985 play written by Australian writer and playwright Louis Nowra.
 It is based on the story that Nowra heard from an academic about ""a strange group of people in the wilds of South-West Tasmania just before World War II"".
A Quiet End is a 1985 play by Robin Swados (1953–).
 It was one of the earliest dramas to deal with the AIDS crisis in the United States.
 The play premiered as the inaugural production of the International City Theater in Long Beach, California, and then four weeks later at the Offstage Theater in London.
 Since then, "A Quiet End" has been produced at numerous theaters including the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, the American Repertory Theater (Amsterdam), Theater-off-Park (New York), as well as two revivals in Los Angeles and another in New York in September 2008.
 Swados also composed the underscoring for "A Quiet End", which has been published as a single volume by Samuel French; as part of the anthology "Gay and Lesbian Plays Today"; and featured in "The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1990" and "The Best Stage Scenes for Men From the 1980s" (Smith and Kraus, 1990).
 "A Quiet End" was also the focus of a chapter of Robert Vorlicky's "Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama" (U. of Michigan Press, 1995).
Richard F. Stockton (Akron, Ohio February 3, 1932 – April 5, 1997) was an American playwright.
 He was the first American Playwright to receive a world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre, for his play "Prisoner of the Crown", co-produced by Sir Alfred Drake.
 The play received its American premiere by the Repertory Company of the Virginia Museum Theater, under the title "The Royal Rape of Ruari Macasmunde", with Keith Fowler in the title role and under Alfred Drake's direction.
 The play dramatizes the jury deliberations in the treason trial of Roger Casement.