Most mainstream news outlets who chose to publish an obituary of Charles Fuller, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, focused on his plays with no mention of his novella “Snatch: The Adventures of David and Me in Old New York.”
This book was published in 2010, his first venture in writing a children’s book and fulfilling a long ago promise he made to his two sons.
Before joining the Army, he studied at Villanova University for two years. After four years in the military, including stints in Japan and South Korea, he returned to his hometown and took night classes at LaSalle College , while working as housing inspector for the city. It was in 1968, as the Black Arts Movement flourished, that he and some friends founded the Afro-American Arts Theater in Philadelphia.
It finally made it to Broadway in 2020 by the Roundabout Theater with a cast that included Grier and Blair Underwood. And Grier won a Tony for best actor in a featured role in a play. The play was classified as a “classic” according to Tony rules and thereby eligible for awards in the revival category though it had never been on Broadway.
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