Charles Fuller left the military in 1962, and later studied at La Salle University, earning a DFA.
11 Facts About Charles Fuller
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Charles Fuller achieved critical notice in 1969 with The Village: A Party, a drama about racial tensions between a group of mixed-race couples.
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Charles Fuller later wrote plays for the Henry Street Settlement theatre and the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City, which have performed several of his plays.
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Charles Fuller won an Obie Award for Zooman and the Sign in 1980, about a black Philadelphia teen who kills a young girl on her own front porch, and whose neighbors eventually rise up against him after being goaded out of their apathy by the girl's father with a sign.
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Charles Fuller's screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Writers Guild Award of America, and it won an Edgar Award.
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The Tony nominating committee had deemed A Soldier's Play a classic, but in their ruling, the committee decided that due to this being the play's first Broadway production, Charles Fuller would be included in the production's nomination as if the play were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play.
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Charles Fuller received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, the State of New York, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Charles Fuller wrote short fiction and screenplays and worked as a movie producer.
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Charles Fuller was a member of the Writers Guild of America, East.
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Charles Fuller died of natural causes in Toronto at the age of 83.
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Charles Fuller left behind his wife, Claire Prieto, his son, David Ira Fuller, his step-son, Ian Kamau, his daughter-in-law, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.