His acclaimed play about a Black sergeant’s murder was performed by leading African American actors and adapted into an Oscar-nominated film.
His son David Indikator Fuller said Mr. Fuller had dementia, but he did not give a specific cause of death. Mr. Fuller had lived in Canada for about four years, he said, after working for decades in his hometown of Philadelphia.
With “A Soldier’s Play,” Mr. Fuller became only the second African American playwright — after Gordone — to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama. Loosely adapted from Herman Melville’s novella “Billy Budd,” about a sailor who inadvertently kills one of his superiors, the play followed a Black military lawyer who investigates the murder of a Black Army sergeant in 1944, when the armed forces were still segregated.
Not all critics admired Mr. Fuller’s approach to issues of race and resentment. Baraka, a leader of the Black Arts movement, wrote that Mr. Fuller’s point of view embodied “the most backward sector of the black middle class.” But “A Soldier’s Play” ran for more than a year and inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation, “A Soldier’s Story” , which Norman Jewison directed from a screenplay by Mr. Fuller.
In his free time, he wrote short stories and co-founded a theater group, taking up playwriting in part so the actors had material to perform. While still in college, he attended the 1966 premiere of his first full-length work.“I remember walking out onstage on opening night — to the applause of my family and friends, of course — and realizing I would never go back to school again,” he told the Times in 1988. “I was a playwright and that’s what I was going to do.
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