Before 'Fences,' August Wilson was a poet -- and a St. Paulite

Playwright August Wilson discusses "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn., in May 1985.
Bob Child | Associated Press file 1985
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