Jitney (August Wilson Century Cycle)

Jitney is a richly textured play that follows a group of men trying to eke out a living by driving unlicensed cabs, or jitneys. When the city threatens to board up the business and the boss's son returns from prison, tempers flare, potent secrets are revealed, and the fragile threads binding these people together may come undone at last.

The play is part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatization of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

This edition includes a foreword by Ishmael Reed.

August Wilson (1945–2005) is the most influential and successful African American playwright. A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, his plays have been produced all over the world.

Ishmael Reed is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher. His published works include his poetry collection Conjure (Pulitzer Prize nominee and National Book Award nominee) and his novel Mumbo Jumbo (National Book Award nominee). Reed's accolades include writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Langston Hughes Medal from City College of New York, an AUDELCO Pioneer Award for the Theater, and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.