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George Wolfe

American writer and director

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African American literature

  • frontispiece and title page of Phillis Wheatley's book of poetry
    In African American literature: The turn of the 21st century

    In the 1980s and ’90s, George Wolfe won substantial acclaim both as a playwright, whose The Colored Museum (produced 1986) lampooned stereotypes and myths of Black culture, and as the director of Angels in America, a Tony Award-winning drama by white playwright Tony Kushner.

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