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Feed Your Mind: A Story of August Wilson
Written by Jen Bryant and Cannaday Chapman
Narrated by David Sadzin
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About this audiobook
Like many of August Wilson's plays, this story is told in two acts, revealing how Wilson grew up to be one of the most influential American playwrights.
Author
Jen Bryant
Jen Bryant has written numerous books for young readers,including Georgia's Bones and A River ofWords, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award.Her book A Splash of Red (Knopf)received the Schneider Family Book Award and theNCTE Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction. She lives inPennsylvania.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5it made me think back in time to how if i had been born one decade earlier this could have been my closely narrated story.