August Wilson was born in 1945 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most acclaimed American playwrights of the 20th century. His plays have won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, one for Fences and the other for The Piano Lesson, eight New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, and Broadway's highest honor, the Tony Award. He was married three times. His first wife was Brenda Burton, a Muslim, with whom he had a daughter named Sakina Ansari. After the marriage ended in 1972, he later married his second wife, Judy Oliver, a white social worker, who supported him financially during the early years of his career as a playwright. After their divorce in 1990, he later married his third wife, Constanza Romero, a costume designer, with whom he had a daughter named Azula Carmen. He died of liver cancer on October 2, 2005. Two weeks later, the Virginia Theater in New York was renamed the August Wilson Theater in his honor. Then, on May 30, 2007, the state of Pennsylvania designated his childhood home as a historic landmark. Her mother's name was Daisy, similar to Rose, it is the name of a flower which symbolizes the love, kindness, care and nurturing that mothers show to their children. She practically had to raise four children alone due to the lack of support from her husband. She is an example of the silencing of women. She was in an interracial marriage, which led them to move to a new neighborhood where she experienced racial prejudice. In those days, whenever someone was a victim of racial prejudice, people would usually throw bricks through their windows in order to intimidate them into leaving. So this could have been one of the problems her mother was facing, besides feeling uncomfortable and receiving bitter looks from others. neighbors