" FTP, identify this author of The Pittsburgh Cycle, which includes Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and a play about Troy Maxson entitled Fences.
This author chronicles the protagonist's songwriting ambitions and relationship with Vera in Seven Guitars; similarly to Schoolboy Barton's struggles, the protagonist searches out Martha after leaving the title character's chain gang in Joe Turner's Come and Gone.  One character in his best known play believes himself to be the archangel Gabriel and opens the gates of heaven at the funeral of the main character, who used to play bas eball in the Negro Leagues, and counts his conflicts with his son Cory as "strikes." FTP, identify this author of The Pittsburgh Cycle, which includes Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and a play about Troy Maxson entitled Fences.
This author chronicles the protagonist's songwriting ambitions and relationship with Vera in Seven Guitars; similarly to Schoolboy Barton's struggles, the protagonist searches out Martha after leaving the title character's chain gang in Joe Turner's Come and Gone.  
August {Wilson} [or August {Kittel}]