Charles h fuller jr biography

American dramatist (–)

For other people named Charles Fuller, see Charles Fuller (disambiguation).

Charles H. Fuller Jr. (March 5, – October 3, ) was an American playwright, best known for his play A Soldier's Play, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

Charles h fuller jr biography

Early life

Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 5, , the son of Charles H. Fuller, Sr. and Lillian Anderson. Raised Roman Catholic, he attended Roman Catholic High School and then Villanova University (–), then joined the U.S.

Army in , serving in Japan and South Korea.^[2][3] He left the military in , and later studied at La Salle University (–), earning a DFA. Furthermore, he co-founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Fuller vowed to become a writer after noticing that his high school's library had no books by African-American authors.

He achieved crit