In one play by this author, a woman chastises her husband for using their baby food money to securethe down payment on a house. This author slammed New Republic theater critic Robert Brustein in hismanifesto "The Ground on Which I Stand." In another of his plays, a man complains about theincompetence of the stuttering Sylvester and treasures his expensive Florsheim shoes, stabbing Toledo foraccidentally stepping on them. In his most famous play, 
In one play by this author, a woman chastises her husband for using their baby food money to securethe down payment on a house. This author slammed New Republic theater critic Robert Brustein in hismanifesto "The Ground on Which I Stand." In another of his plays, a man complains about theincompetence of the stuttering Sylvester and treasures his expensive Florsheim shoes, stabbing Toledo foraccidentally stepping on them. In his most famous play, a woman admits to giving "eighteen years of mylife to stand in the same spot with you" after her learning of her husband's affair with Alberta; that husbandprevents his son Cory from playing football, bitter about having to give up his own boyhood dream tobecome a garbage-man. For 10 points, name this author of Jitney, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Fences,three plays in his Pittsburgh cycle.
In one play by this author, a woman chastises her husband for using their baby food money to securethe down payment on a house.
August Wilson