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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.
24 de feb. de 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.
25 de feb. de 2021 · 0. Playwright and Texas A&M professor Charles Gordone. College of Liberal Arts. 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.
19 de nov. de 1995 · Charles Gordone, who pioneered a polemical form of race-conscious theater with a blistering drama that made him the first black playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize, died Friday at his home in...
16 de dic. de 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.
Description. In NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY a black bartender in New York City attempts to outwit a white mobster syndicate. The play received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Charles Gordone’s Pulitzer signified two firsts: he was the first African American playwright to receive a Pulitzer, and NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY was the first Off ...
21 de ago. de 2023 · Courtesy photo. In a world of nearly eight billion unique voices, finding one’s own isn’t easy. Texas A&M University is where the late Charles Gordone, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama and a former faculty member in the Department of English, found his — and where he helped students find theirs.
