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Charles Gordone, all'anagrafe Charles Edward Fleming (Cleveland, 12 ottobre 1925 – College Station, 16 novembre 1995) è stato un drammaturgo e attore statunitense.È stato il primo scrittore afroamericano a vincere il Premio Pulitzer per la drammaturgia.
Charles Edward Gordone (October 12, 1925 – November 16, 1995) was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator. He was the first African American to win the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama and he devoted much of his professional life to the pursuit of multi-racial American theater and racial unity.
No Place to Be Somebody is a 1969 play written by American playwright Charles Gordone. It was during his employment as a bartender in Greenwich Village that Gordone found the inspiration for his first major work, No Place to Be Somebody, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- Allan Lewis, Charles Gordone
- 1969
24 feb 2021 · By Mia Mercer ‘23. Charles Gordone was a Pulitzer Prize award winning playwright, beloved professor, and champion of diversity at Texas A&M University. The late Charles Gordone, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, came to the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University in 1987.
16 dic 2007 · Charles Gordone. Fair use image. Charles Gordone was born Charles Edward Fleming on October 12, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio to parents William and Camille Fleming. He took his stepfather’s surname of Gordon when his mother remarried when he was five years old. The family moved to Elkhart, Indiana, his mother’s hometown, when Charles was very young.
Initially. At a Glance … Born October 12, 925, in Cleveland, OH; died Novem ber 13, 1995, in College Station, TX, of cancer; son of William Gordone and Camille Morgan Gordone; one of seven children; married Jeanne Warner, 1959; children: Stephen, Judy, Leah-Carla, David; nine grandchildren.
25 feb 2021 · Through his works as an actor, playwright, and professor, the late Charles Gordone was able to educate people across the country about Black Americans’ struggle for equality. Gordone, who joined the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University in 1987, was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
