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Charles Edward Gordone

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Charles Edward Gordone Famous memorial Veteran

Birth
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
Death
16 Nov 1995 (aged 70)
College Station, Brazos County, Texas, USA
Burial
Cremated, Ashes scattered. Specifically: Ashes scattered on the XIT Ranch in Texas. Add to Map
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Playwright, Actor, Director, Educator. He was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for "No Place to be Somebody", in 1970. The cowboy poets and musicians of the Texas Panhandle honored him with a prairie funeral at sunset and scattered his ashes across the legendary XIT Ranch.
Playwright, Actor, Director, Educator. He was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for "No Place to be Somebody", in 1970. The cowboy poets and musicians of the Texas Panhandle honored him with a prairie funeral at sunset and scattered his ashes across the legendary XIT Ranch.

Bio by: Garver Graver


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