Which major awards did the author of the play Seven Guitars receive for his work ?
Seven Guitars Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by American playwright August Wilson. It focuses on seven African-American characters in the year 1948. The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks. "Seven Guitars" represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle", a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in "King Hedley II", set in the 1980s.
Arthur Kopit Arthur Lee Kopit (born May 10, 1937) is an American playwright. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist ("Indians" and "Wings") and a three-time Tony Award nominee: Best Play, "Indians", 1970; Best Play, "Wings", 1979; and Best Book of a Musical, for "Nine", 1982. He won the Vernon Rice Award (now known as the Drama Desk Award) in 1962 for his play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" and was nominated for another Drama Desk Award in 1979 for his play "Wings".