August Wilson is a well known refined man as well as a wonderful author to many plays. He was born on April 27^th, 1945 in the Hill District of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. His lovely parents were named to be Frederick August Kittel, Sr. a German immigrant baker and Daisey Wilson. He was the fourth of seven children in his family, who at the time lived in a two room apartment above a grocery store. During this time racism was very high leaving African-Americans with menial jobs or none at all. Eventually after sometime Wilson’s mother got remarried to David Bedford in the 1950s when he was a teen, and relocated to a predominantly white area where they were not welcomed. On numerous occasions bricks were thrown into their home leaving them to feel uneasy, which caused them to relocate once more. After they had relocated to a new area, August Wilson started school at Central Catholic High School in 1959 where he was harassed and abused; driving him away. Later on he attended Connelley Vocational High School but found the curriculum unchallenging, and transferred to Gladstone High School in 10^th grade. After being falsely accused of plagiarizing a 20-page paper on Napoleon I of France, he dropped out of school hiding his decision from his mom. He later found a menial job where he came across a number of people, who had an impact on him to write plays about. In his latter life, he spent most of his time in the Carnegie Library to educate himself which he was awarded a degree for. He continued to read novels and poems by Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Arna Bontemps, and many others.