"This will serve as the definitive account of an essential American playwright."──Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Hartigan makes an impressive book debut with an appreciative, well-researched biography of August Wilson. . . . An authoritative portrait of a defiant champion of Black theater."──Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[Hartigan] succeeds in capturing the multilayered complexities of one of America’s greatest playwrights—winner of ten Tonys, a Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, and two Emmys—through rigorous research and deep knowledge of his work. . . . And while Wilson enjoyed mythologizing his own life, this glowing biography sifts fact from fiction. . . . Invaluable.”── Booklist (starred review)