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Posted: 8/26/05 at 12:49pm
Per Backstage:
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson has been diagnosed with liver cancer and told a newspaper in his native Pittsburgh that he is dying.
Wilson, 60, who lives in Seattle, was diagnosed with the ailment in June.
"It's not like poker, you can't throw your hand in," Wilson told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story published Friday. 'I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.'"
http://www.backstage.com/backstage/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001022250
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson has been diagnosed with liver cancer and told a newspaper in his native Pittsburgh that he is dying.
Wilson, 60, who lives in Seattle, was diagnosed with the ailment in June.
"It's not like poker, you can't throw your hand in," Wilson told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story published Friday. 'I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.'"
http://www.backstage.com/backstage/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001022250
