he dropped out of school at age 15 when his teacher said his paper on napoleon was "too good" to have been written "by a black kid."
he won 3 tonys and 2 pulitzers.
just this year he completed a 10 play cycle on the black experience in america in each decade of the 20th century.
it was announced last month that 2 weeks from today broadway's virginia theatre will be re-named in his honor, the first time one has been named after an african american.
60 years old.
we'll never know how many great plays he took with him.
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