Ron Milner (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ronald Milner (May 29, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan - July 16, 2004 in Detroit) was an African-American playwright. His play, Checkmates, starring Paul Winfield and Denzel Washington ran on Broadway in 1988. Ronald Milner was born on May 29, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up on Hastings Street, also known as "The Valley." It had "muslims on corner, hustlers and pimps on another, winos on one, and Aretha Franklin singing from her father's church on the other" said Geneva Smitherman, author of Black World. Milner would tell David Richards in a Washington Star interview that "The more I read in high school, the more I realized that some tremendous, phenomenal things were happening around me. What happened in a Faulkner novel happened four times a day on Hastings Street.