Gordone, Charles

Gordone, Charles
▪ 1996

      U.S. playwright who became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize with the Broadway production of his gritty barroom drama No Place to Be Somebody, based on his work at a bar in New York City's Greenwich Village (b. Oct. 12, 1925—d. Nov. 17, 1995).

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