August Wilson: Come and Gone

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: "In the end, it was a dramatic race with the clock. Playwright August Wilson was diagnosed with liver cancer in June 2005, and he was told he had only a few months to live. At the time, he was still revising 'Radio Golf,' the 10th and final installment in his monumental decade-by-decade cycle of plays -- a chronicle of African-American life in the 20th century that, from the start, was more spiritual and poetic than historically literal."