Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller died of natural causes on Monday at age 83.
Through a spokesperson, his wife Claire Prieto-Fuller confirmed she was by his side at the time of death at a Toronto hospital.
The 1981 Off-Broadway production of his murder mystery about a a platoon of Black troops at a Louisiana Army base in 1944 was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film. The work was retitled “A Soldier’s Story” and starred Howard Rollins, Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, William Allen Young, Patti LaBelle and Adolf Caesar in 1984.
