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Pogacar has become the first rider to win five stages at a single Tour de France since German sprinter Marcel Kittel in 2017.

It wasn’t easy for Frederick August Kittel Jr., a high school dropout from Pittsburgh’s Hill District, to transform himself into August Wilson, the venerable playwright whose 10-play cycle examining 20th century Black life in America earned him a seat in the pantheon beside Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee.

Kittel, who was married, was an erratic and destabilizing presence in the household.

It’s such a gift to have an artist, particularly of that caliber, give us an insight into what the young Freddy Kittel — which was his name before he became August Wilson — who Freddy Kittel was.

I sat down, keeping my borrowed kittel on because Yakov had died in his clothes.