Bradby, Marie
- Name(s)
- Marie Bradby
- Date of Birth
- Birthplace: Virginia
- Residence(s)
- Louisville, KY
- Education
- Hampton University
- Awards
- American Library Association notable book citation for More than Anything Else (1996)
- International Reading Association Book Award More than Anything Else (1996)
- Best Book of 1995 by Book Links, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times for More than Anything Else (1996)
- Golden Kite Award for Momma, Where Are You From? (2000?)
- Los Angeles Times Best Book citation for Once upon a Farm (2002)
- Kentucky Public Libraries "Choice Award" nominee for Once upon a Farm (2003)
- Employment
- Staff writer for National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D. C.
- Reporter for Providence Journal, Providence, RI; Lexington Herald, Lexington, KY, and Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY
- Occupation(s)
- Writer
- Reporter
More Than Anything Else by ISBN: 0531094642Publication Date: 1995-09-01"A fictionalized story about the life of young Booker T. Washington. Living in a West Virginia settlement after emancipation, nine-year-old Booker travels by lantern light to the salt works, where he labors from dawn till dusk. Although his stomach rumbles, his real hunger is his intense desire to learn to read.... [A] moving and inspirational story." - School Library Journal, starred review
Momma, Where Are You From? by ISBN: 0531301052Publication Date: 2000-03-01"In this lyrical picture book, an African American mother tells her young daughter about growing up in the rural South in a time long ago.... Bradby tells of the good times with and love in every word, while Soentpiet bathes the remembered scenes in a golden light." - Kirkus Reviews
Once upon a Farm by ISBN: 0439317665Publication Date: 2002-03-01Told in poetic detail and with Ted Rand's exquisite watercolors, "Once Upon a Farm" portrays the toil and triumph of farm life. With barns and bales, fences and flowers, chores and churns, we weather the seasons along with the young narrator. Told from a child's perspective, the story follows a family working together to make a life on the land they hold so dear. Resonating with rural truths, this family's toil and triumph in our country's heartland will strike a chord with readers everywhere. "Once Upon a Farm" is a place we can all recognize.
Some Friend by ISBN: 0689856156Publication Date: 2004-01-06Finding a friend isn't easy. Especially when there aren't many kids age eleven in your neighborhood. Being a friend is even harder. In Pearl's neighborhood, Lenore is anyone's first choice. She gets her hair straightened and curled at a real beauty shop. Pearl's is still in braids. Lenore has her own pink phone and a frilly canopy bed. Pearl has to share a room with her teenage sister, "Princess" Diana, and a shaggy old bed with her sassy little sister, Angela. Lenore has followers -- Nadine and Ce-Ce. She hardly needs Pearl.But Pearl still hopes -- until Artemesia comes along. She is everything Pearl herself dreams of being -- a modern dancer, a gifted artist. She is also a mystery. "That old stanky girl," Lenore snorts, mocking with the others Artemesia's ill-fitting yellow dress. Pearl, meaning the best, does the worst thing possible.And still she hasn't a friend.Or has she?
The Longest Wait by ISBN: 9780531068717Publication Date: 1995-03-01Young Thomas is sure that his daddy will come home and take him sledding after he completes his postal rounds, but the worst blizzard of the year is brewing outside, and the rest of the family is worried. Why? wonders Thomas. It's just some snow, and Daddy is strong. They wait, and wait. When Daddy finally returns, he's numb from the cold and gets sick. Soon, Thomas starts to worry too. Will Daddy be all right? But the next morning, Thomas knows everything is all right when he gets to take "the longest sled ride he ever had".- All aboard! the Belle of Louisville byPublication Date: 2013In All Aboard! The Belle of Louisville, passengers drop what they are doing and rush to board one of the oldest operating steamboats in the world. Hurry! The captain and crew are busy getting the Belle's old engines going. Steam PUFFS. Machines WHIRR. Gears CLICK. Here we go! Come along for a lively ride on this boat that dates back to the industrial age a time when steamboats were the rulers of transportation and the fastest roads were rivers.
Something about the Author by ISBN: 0787687855Publication Date: 2005-10-10An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume of this series provides illustrated biographical articles on approximately 70 children's authors and artists. The series covers more than 10,000 individuals, ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources and photographs. Also available is a cumulative author index, published in odd-numbered volumes.
Bradford, John
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- Name(s)
- John Bradford
- John Bradford, Esq.
- Date of Birth
- June 6, 1749
- near Warrenton, Virginia
- Date of Death
- 1830
- Residence(s)
- Warrenton, Virginia
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
- Education
- Life Events,
- Founded the Kentucky Gazette in 1787, the first newspaper in Kentucky
- Founding member of Transylvania University
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Transylvania University, 1793-1830
- Influential in founding the Lexington library
- Served as Fayette County Representative in the Kentucky House of Representatives
- Served as high sheriff of Fayette County
- Married Eliza James, 1771
- Employment
- Deputy surveyor under Colonel Thomas Marshall, Fayette County, Kentucky, 1782
- Deputy surveyor under George May, Kentucky, 1780
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Printer
- Historian
- Surveyor
The Voice of the Frontier: John Bradford's Notes on Kentucky by ISBN: 9780813118017Publication Date: 1993-03-28From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette, reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of the West. Now for the first time all of Bradford's Notes on Kentucky -- the primary historical source for Kentucky's early years -- are made available in a single volume, edited by the state's most distinguished historian. The Kentucky Gazette was established in 1787 to support Kentucky's separation from Virginia and the formation of a new state. Bradford's Notes deal at length with that protracted debate and the other major issues confronting Bradford and his pioneering neighbors. The early white settlers were obsessed with Indian raids, which continued for more than a decade and caused profound anxiety. A second vexing concern was overlapping land claims, as swarms of settlers flowed into the region. And as quickly as the land was settled, newly opened fields began to yield mountains of produce in need of outside markets. Spanish control of the lower Mississippi and rumors of Spain's plan to close the river for twenty-five years were far more threatening to the new economy than the continuing Indian raids. Equally disturbing was the British occupation of the northwest posts from which it was believed the northern Indian raids emanated. Not until Anthony Wayne's sweeping campaign against the Miami villages and the signing of the Treaty of Greenville in 1794 was tension from that quarter relieved. Finally, the Jay Treaty with Britain and the Pinckney Treaty with Spain diplomatically cleared the Kentucky frontier for free expansion of the white populace. John Bradford's Notes on Kentucky, now published together for the first time, deal with all of these pertinent issues. No other source portrays so intimately or so graphically the travail of western settlement.- John Bradford's Historical &c. Notes on Kentucky: From the Western Miscellany byPublication Date: 1932Head-pieces. Originally published in the "Kentucky gazette" beginning August 25, 1826; published in 1827 in "The Western miscellany," a compilation by G.W. Stipp, printed in Xenia, O. In the present edition the Stipp Text has been compared and checked with that of the "Kentucky gazette."
- The General Instructor, or The Office, Duty, and Authority of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables, in the State of Kentucky..."...with precedents suited to every case that can possibly arise in either of those offices, under the laws now in force, with references to the laws out of which they do arise : the whole alphabetically digested under the several titles, with an index for the ready finding any matter sought." 252 pages.
- The Western Miscellany, or, Accounts Historical, Biographical, and Amusing byPublication Date: 1827224 pages. Contents: Notes on Kentucky -- Henry & Mathilda, or the child of the cascade -- The fair maniac / [Milford Bard] -- Old Martin Bumgarden, the indigo merchant.
- John Bradford, Esq.: Pioneer Kentucky Printer and Historian byPublication Date: 1950Biography; 24 pages. Free ebook available through HathiTrust.
The First Printing in Kentucky: Some Account of Thomas Parvin and John Bradford and the Establishment of the Kentucky Gazette in Lexington in the Year 1787, with a Bibliography of 78 Titles by Publication Date: 1936History with bibliography; 57 pages. Free digital reproduction available through HathiTrust. "...Remote and without other than toilsome and perilous contact with established governments along the Atlantic Seaboard and the Gulf Coast, Kentuckians before the midsummer of the year 1787, with John Bradford lifted from the hand press in his little log cabin shop in Lexington the first imprint of the Kentucke Gazette, were a people quite to themselves...John Bradford's contribution to social and governmental progress in establishing the Kentucke Gazette changed all this immediately. It made local, national and international affairs of importance a commonplace matter of knowledge and assisted greatly in the unification of the spirit and purpose of the Kentuckians..." -- Foreword.- John Bradford, Pioneer Printer of Kentucky: An Account of How Public Necessity Affected the Career of a Kentuckian Who, Without Previous Experience in Printing, Brought the First Press to Lexington During 1787 and There Established the Kentucky Gazette byPublication Date: 1931Kentucky Culture series. "Two hundred copies reprinted from National printer journalist for February, 1931."
- The "Kentucky Gazette" and John Bradford, Its Founder byPublication Date: [1937]30 pages. "Reprinted from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, volume XXXI, part 2, 1937."
- John Bradford's Contributions to Printing and Libraries in Lexington, Kentucky, 1787-1800 byPublication Date: 1951MA thesis, University of Kentucky.
- Samuel M. Wilson research papers on John BradfordHoused at the University of Kentucky, Special Collections Research Center. Summary, " These papers include documents relating to lawsuits in which Bradford was concerned, and Judge Samuel M. Wilson's research materials on Bradford. The Bradford legal papers include surveys, plats, depositions, summonses, land patents, etc., relating to lawsuits involving the Trustees of the town of Lexington, Kentucky; Thomas Smith; Robert Patterson et al.; George Barnett and William Stafford; Elizabeth Lee; Graves Kelly; the Lyle family heirs; and others. The Wilson materials include his research notes on Bradford; correspondence concerning that research and his search for Bradford's "Notes" on Kentucky; materials on the Bradford Memorial and Historical Association of Lexington, Kentucky, commonly known as the Bradford Club; and pictures of the Bradford family. These papers are useful for documenting the early history of Kentucky, and of Lexington in particular. The collection constitutes an important resource for the biography of Bradford."
- John Bradford (printer) at WikipediaWikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- Tom Eblen to discuss John Bradford who was much more than just the state's first newspaper publisherArticle in KYpress.com, October 14, 2016
Bridgeman, Hallee
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- Name(s)
- Hallee Bridgeman
- Date of Birth
- 1972
- Residence(s)
- Florida
- Fort Knox, Hardin, Meade, and Bullitt Counties, Kentucky
- Education
- Life events
- Director of the Kentucky Christian Writers Conference
- President, Faith-Hope-Love chapter of the Romance Writers of America
- Member, American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW)
- Member, American Christian Writers (ACW)
- Members, Novelists, Inc. (NINC)
- USA Today best selling author
- 2023 American Christian Fiction Writer's Best Book of the Year for Romantic Suspense
- Employment
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
Sapphire Ice by ISBN: 9781939603159Publication Date: 2012-03-25The Jewel series, book 1. To Robin Bartlett, men were nothing more than violent users. After a hair-raising childhood, Robin and her two younger half sisters battled simply to survive. Determined to give her sisters a very different life from that of their mother; to never have to rely on a man for anything, she worked two jobs and put them both through college, while accepting help from no one. Her heart had turned to ice and she had no use for men or God. Antonio "Tony" Viscolli had grown up on the streets, homeless. At seventeen, he entered a downtown church with the intent of casing it, but found himself on his knees at the altar. Lovingly fostered by the youth minister, Tony learned about God. Striking out on his own, he let God lead him to eventually become a very successful businessman. In a fallen world, Tony was a gem. When he bought the restaurant where Robin bartended, she immediately resented his intrusion into her well ordered, but exhausting, life.
Greater Than Rubies, a Novella by ISBN: 9781939603180Publication Date: 2012-12-30The Jewel series, book 2. Robin Bartlett said, -Yes - Will she say, -I do, - when the big day arrives? From his cultured handsome looks to his vast fortune, Antonio -Tony- Viscolli is every red-blooded American girl's dream match. It doesn't hurt that he completely loves and adores Robin with all his heart and soul from practically the moment they first meet. Robin comes from a blistering past, struggling and fighting for the survival of herself and her two younger half-sisters in a cold, cruel world. By the time Tony thaws her heart, she has known hunger, poverty, violence, and want. Robin never had a chance to dream of a white wedding gown or a prince charming. Instead, her dreams were nightmares dark and clouded with fear and desperation. Ultimately, Robin questions whether she is truly the girl of Tony's dreams.
Emerald Fire by ISBN: 9781681900766Publication Date: 2012, 2017The Jewel series, book 3. In a spontaneous weekend, she unintentionally elopes with an unlikely groom. After a magical wedding night filled with love and passion, "Maxi" finally discards her dreadful chains. She doesn't know that her new husband has turned his back on God. Worried over how the world might see the completely unexpected - and some would certainly say inappropriate - marriage, in his pride he promises Maxine a quiet annulment. Unwilling to let their marriage disappear as if it never happened, Maxine refuses to cooperate.
Topaz Heat by ISBN: 9780615644295Publication Date: 2012-06-17The Jewel series, book 4. The very moment Derrick meets Sarah, he realizes he has a reason to live. Sarah sees only an unshaven tough kid covered with tattoos and shuts down every advance. Sarah Thomas has no memory of her broken young life leading up to the tragic murder of her mother. Her memory begins the morning she wakes in the home of her loving adoptive parents. She doesn't even know her sisters exist until her 15th year. She learns to love her siblings, but always feels a little out of place in their presence. A benevolent billionaire offers Derrick DiNunzio a home and an education. Fresh off the streets and rescued from a criminal future, Derrick sheds his old life.
Christmas Diamond by ISBN: 9781939603142Publication Date: 2013-11-20The Jewel series, book 5. Faith Green spends her career as a pilot honoring her grandmother's heroic efforts during World War II. When she's invited to participate in a Christmas time air show in the Florida Keys, she thinks it will be exciting to fly somewhere warm and sunny instead of her cold and wintery London home. But on her first day, she encounters a lifeless body washed up onto the beach. TJ Viscolli is the eldest child and only son of a wealthy and powerful corporate mogul but instead of modern business his interests lie in history. Months away from a Ph.D., he has an accident windsurfing at his Key West home. When he is resuscitated by a beautiful women, at first he thinks that a Christmas angel has come to save him.- Christmas Star Sapphire byISBN: 9781681900605Publication Date: 2015, 2017The Jewel series, book 6. He cast away his birthright. She'll inherit an enterprise. Can he captain her heart? Madeline Viscolli finds herself on the Gulf shores of Alabama, where she takes part in a graduate program to earn her MBA. On her first day there, she meets Joe Westcott, team leader for a campus ministry. Despite a mutual attraction, Joe's personal rule of no romance with any student keeps any kind of deep relationship from developing. Then Madeline walks into the auditorium the week school starts and Joe suspects his personal rules might not apply to this graduate student.
Jade's Match by ISBN: 9781681901213Publication Date: 2018-01-30The Jewel series, book 7. Rio Games silver medalist and social media darling Cora "Jade" Anderson is approached by a popular cell phone company to launch a flirty but fake media campaign with ice hockey star Davis Elliott. When things get off to a rocky start, Cora and Davis both wonder what they've gotten into and how they'll get through the months until the Korean games. It's not long until things start to warm up between the athletes and soon this fake romance becomes something much more real.
Chasing Pearl by ISBN: 9781681901275Publication Date: 2018-08-01The Jewel series, book 8. A package lost in the mail since 1940 brings a modern couple together in a miraculous way. Bestselling author Violet Pearl lives a perfectly content life: she helps run The Texas Pearl, her family's inn, lives with her sister and grandmother, and attends a great church just a block from home. She has never left her little corner of Texas and has no desire to do so now. When a time-worn postal package arrives at the inn addressed to Chase Anderson with a 1940 postmark, Violet and Chase discover that his great-grandfather had also visited the inn as a guest all those years before.
Temperance's Trial by ISBN: 9781939603562Publication Date: 2014-09-08The Virtues and Valor series, book 1. Marie Gilbert and her brother flee from Vichy France after the Gestapo arrest her father for suspicion of aiding Jewish children to escape the oncoming fascist front. In London, Marie is recruited into an experimental all female cohort dubbed the Virtues, seven extraordinary women with highly specialized skills. Known only by her code name, Temperance, she is trained to operate a wireless radio and returns to her beloved France. With a new identity, Marie clandestinely communicates vital intelligence directly back to Headquarters but unwillingly attracts the attention and apparent adoration of a handsome but ruthless Nazi officer.
Homeland's Hope by ISBN: 9781939603463Publication Date: 2014-10-20The Virtues and Valor series, book 2. Stage and screen legend Virginia Benoit performs for standing room only crowds in her adopted home of France. When the Nazis roll into Paris, she flees to Casablanca, taking the heart of a enemy General with her. While in there, Virginia devises a plan to use her position, talent, and influence with the high ranking Axis officer to aid the Allied cause.Virginia joins the Virtues team, assigned the code-name Hope. Her keen mind trains in the craft of espionage. After staging a rift with the US, she returns to Paris, hiding undercover in plain sight, and spies on the enemy. All is well until the Third Reich imprisons the Virtues wireless operator, code named Temperance.
Charity's Code by ISBN: 9781939603470Publication Date: 2014-11-17The Virtues and Valor series, book 3. Dorthy Ewing never met a crossword puzzle that she couldn't solve with shocking speed. As a loving wife and mother of three children, she had an idyllic life with her home and her puzzles - until she had to see her husband off to war. Then the bombing of the Blitz began. Now her husband Tom is a POW in Occupied France, her children have been sent to the hopeful safety of her parents' home in York, and she is working at Bletchley Park as an assistant to cryptanalysts. After cracking the code on an encrypted letter from her husband, she is recruited into a special team called The Virtues.
A Parcel for Prudence by ISBN: 9781939603487Publication Date: 2014-12-15The Virtues and Valor Series, book 4. Muriel Tolson grew up with all of the luxuries life could offer. As the daughter of a duke, she married the second son of an earl and lived in style on his family's estate. When her husband ships off to fight the Nazis in Africa, Muriel heeds his request to use her intelligence and language skills to help with the war effort. She approaches the British secret services and soon finds herself recruited into an experimental all female cohort dubbed the Virtues, a collection of seven extraordinary women with highly specialized skills.
Grace's Ground War by ISBN: 9781939603494Publication Date: 2015-01-19The Virtues and Valor series, book 5. Ruth Aubertin's father, a highly decorated veteran of the Great War, moves his family from British Palestine to the wild of Great Britain after the Hebron masacre in 1929. He has always known the Germans would return to France, and trained his children from the time they could walk, turning them into finely tuned weapons with multiple skills ranging in weapons training to hand-to-hand combat. When the Germans roll into France, Ruth and her brothers volunteer with the British Special Services and Ruth joins the Virtues team under the code name of Grace.
Mission of Mercy by ISBN: 9781939603500Publication Date: 2015-02-17The Virtues and Valor series, book 6. Doctor Betty Grimes miraculously survives the Nazi bombing of her hospital but suffers the loss of her fiancé in the raid. She goes to the countryside to grieve and recuperate and there meets the leader of the Virtues team who recruits the brilliant surgeon. After months of training, Betty, code-named Mercy, now works in Occupied France as a nurse, where she garners information from patients and passes it to the Allies.
Flight of Faith by ISBN: 9781939603517Publication Date: 2015-03-17The Virtues and Valor series, book 7. Helen Mulberry, the youngest child and only daughter of a wealthy Texas oil tycoon, has always had her every wish granted immediately. When the Germans march into France, no one denies her request to fly her plane to England and help free up a male pilot for combat. Her father's influence opens doors, and 19 year old Helen joins the Virtues team. Now under the code-name Faith, she flies between Britain and France, transporting passengers, supplies, or performing reconnaissance.- Valor's Vigil byISBN: 9781681900223Publication Date: 2015-11-09The Virtues and Valor series, book 8. Leopold Schäfer, the only child of Major Charlene Radden and former spy, Karl Schäfer has trained his enter life for this moment in time. An American spy undercover in a Nazi uniform operating under the codename VALOR, he receives a promotion to Oberleutnant and a new duty assignment in charge of the prisoners in Occupied France's Valeurville prison.In the wake of Marie Perrin, codename Temperance's arrest, Leo must handle the situation with the utmost caution.
A Melody for James by ISBN: 9781939603081Publication Date: 2013-05-01The Song of Suspense series, book 1. Solitary strangers meet during a stormy stopover. Hours later, their hearts hum a harmonious duet. Melody Mason has the hottest female voice in the country music scene. But the cheers of all her adoring fans across the world mean little in the absence of the handsome stranger who rescued her years before. Widower James Montgomery has never gotten the singing heiress he encountered during an unscheduled airport layover out of his mind. Years later, their paths cross in the most amazing circumstances.
An Aria for Nick by ISBN: 9781939603111Publication Date: 2013-11-01The Song of Suspense, book 2. Raised in a loving home, Aria Suarez dreamed of becoming a professional pianist happily married to her high school crush. After the only boy who ever caught her eye dies a hero's death and her wrist is shattered along with her future plans, she turns her brilliant musical mind to nuclear engineering and solving mysteries of science. A decade later, Aria uncovers a nuclear plot that threatens the heart of our very nation. Sinister forces surround and threaten her when, out of nowhere, the man who reportedly died so many years before returns as if from the grave - intent on protecting her.
A Carol for Kent by ISBN: 9781939603272Publication Date: 2014-05-13The Song of Suspense series, book 3. A ruthless serial killer seeks to end a love song eight years in the making. Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Carol Mabry heads up an investigation into a string of stranglings in Virginia's capital. The serial killer known as Richmond Red remorselessly snuffs out beautiful young women with violin strings before ritually enshrining their lovely lifeless bodies inside a pentagram of blood red candles.
A Harmony for Steve by ISBN: 9781681900896Publication Date: 2017-08-15The Song of Suspense series, book 4. Harmony and Steve draw closer and spiritual war wages when heaven meets hell. Christian contemporary singing sensation, daughter of Christian radio and media family counselor icons, Harmony Harper, has spent her entire life serving God. From teen sensation to celebrated adult Christian contemporary music artist, she regularly plays sold-out concerts everywhere she goes. Nearing thirty, and nearing burnout, Harmony heads to her mountain cabin hideaway to commune with Christ and compose some new music. Hard rocker Steve Slayer faces an ultimatum: keep rocking life the hard way and watch his organs fail due to addictions, or, sober up - for real this time - and live. Hiding out in the mountains of Oregon, he spends weeks detoxing. Finally strong enough to venture into town, he comes face to face with Harmony.
Courting Calla by ISBN: 9781681901121Publication Date: 2017-11-30The Dixon Brothers series, book 1. Calla Vaughn has spent the last three years desperately trying to get her life in order so that she can go back to culinary school. No matter how hard she works, though, she feels like she is just treading water and can't see any way out of the hole dug for her by a con artist who stole her identity.
Valerie's Verdict by ISBN: 9781681901602Publication Date: 2019-10-22The Dixon Brothers series, book 2. Broken and battered, Valerie comes home and finds a lifetime of love waiting for her. Valerie Flynn grew up with the Dixon brothers, never differentiating one more than the other. When she leaves for college, she puts Atlanta and her childhood behind her, ready to make a life for herself somewhere else.
Alexandra's Appeal by ISBN: 9781681901732Publication Date: 2020-09-29The Dixon Brothers series, book 3. Alexandra Fisher and Jonathan Dixon meet in a honky-tonk outside of Nashville and instantly share a mutual attraction. After instructing the waitress to keep the drinks coming, they both make bad decisions that result in permanent consequences.
Brooks, Cleanth
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- Name(s)
- Cleanth Brooks
- Date of Birth
- October 16, 1906
- Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky
- Date of Death
- May 10, 1994
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Residence(s)
- Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky
- McKenzie, Tennessee
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Oxford, England
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Education
- Honorary Doctorates, received 1963-1972
- Upsala College
- The University of Kentucky
- The University of Exeter
- Washington and Lee University
- Saint Louis University
- Tulane University
- Centenary College, New Jersey
- Oglethorpe University
- B. Litt., Rhodes Scholar, Exeter College, Oxford University, 1932
- B. A., first class, Rhodes Scholar, Exeter College, Oxford University, 1931
- M. A. Tulane University, New Orleans
- B. A., summa cum laude, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1928
- McTyeire Institute, McKenzie, Tennessee
- Honorary Doctorates, received 1963-1972
- Life Events
- Co-founder and co-editor of The Southern Review with Robert Penn Warren, 1935
- Married Edith Amy Blanchard, 1934; she died in 1986
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science
- Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
- Member of the American Philosophical Society
- Awards and Recognitions
- Inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, 2020
- Guggenheim Fellowships, c.1952, 1960
- Jefferson Lecture from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1985
- Fellow of the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., 1951-1953
- Honorary membership in the Manuscript Society, Yale
- Fellow of the Kenyon School of English, 1948
- Historical Marker #1977 on the Murray State University Campus commemorates Brooks
- Employment
- Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1947-1975
- Gray Professor of Rhetoric and Gray Professor of Rhetoric Emeritus, 1960-1964, 1966-1975
- Visiting professor
- University of Texas, Austin, 1941
- University of California Los Angeles, c.1951-1953
- Cultural Attaché at the United States Embassy, London, 1964-1966
- Co-founder and co-editor of The Southern Review with Robert Penn Warren, 1935-1942
- Professor, English Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1932-1947
- Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1947-1975
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Professor
- Teacher
- Writer
- Literary Critic
- American Literature: The Makers and the Making byPublication Date: 1974-05-014 volumes: Book A. Beginnings to 1826 -- Book B. 1826 to 1861 -- Book C. 1861-1914 -- Book D. 1914 to the present.
- An Approach to Literature byISBN: 9780130438027Publication Date: 1975-03-01An Approach to Literature provides a very liberal selection of fiction, poetry and drama, and it is scarcely to be expected that the book will be regularly used from cover to cover. What we have tried to do, now more positively than ever, is to give teachers room to maneuver, a range of choices out of which they can tailor a course to their special needs and to the tastes and capacities of their students. Fifth edition. First published in 1936.
Community, Religion and Literature: Essays by ISBN: 9780826209931Publication Date: 1995-04-01As the last collection of Cleanth Brooks's essays before his death, Community, Religion, and Literature represents his final, considered views on the reading of literature and the role it plays in our society. He argues that the proper and essential role of literature lies in giving us our sense of community. Yet he denounces the extent to which literature, too, is now being usurped by the critics who see writing as pure language. He believes that just as religion renders truth of another sort, so literature is an expression of the "truth about human beings." More and more in this age of science, literature has "assumed the burden of providing civilization with its values." Community, Religion, and Literature offers students of literature the opportunity to understand what Cleanth Brooks was actually saying, rather than what others have said he was saying.- Eudora Welty: A form of Thanks byISBN: 9780878050895Publication Date: 1979-06-01First published in 1977.
Hidden God: Studies in Hemmingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren by ISBN: 9780300094800Publication Date: 1963-03-11The clarity of style for which Mr. Brooks has long been noted is displayed to advantage in this newest book of his criticism. Originally delivered as lectures at a faculty conference of people interested in theology, the critical studies have special importance for all readers who would like a fresh perspective on five distinguished literary figures whose Christian commitment has been regarded as nonexistent or nebulous. Mr. Brooks believes that whatever a writer has to say about mankind, Christianity, or culture in general is most significantly explained through his achievements as an artist, and for that reason the critic here deals with the characteristic literary work of each author, rather than with his theology or philosophy.- Literary Criticism: A Short History byISBN: 9780226901763Publication Date: 1994-09-13Two volumes: v. 1. Classical and neo-classical criticism -- v. 2. Romantic and modern criticism. First published in 1957.
Modern Poetry and the Tradition by ISBN: 9780807840481Publication Date: [2018]This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.- Modern Rhetoric byISBN: 9780155628151Publication Date: 1979-01-01Fourth edition. Originally published in 1949.
- The Scope of Fiction byPublication Date: 1960"This book is a shorter version of Understanding fiction ... It is ... the very core of the longer book, with a minimum of trimming and adapting"--Preface.
- A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craft byISBN: 9780151817757Publication Date: 1972-01-01First published in 1971.
- Understanding Drama: Twelve Plays byISBN: 9780030049507Publication Date: 1948-01-01A manual for reading drama -- Letter to teacher and students, page ix. First published in 1945.
Understanding Fiction by ISBN: 9780139366901Publication Date: 1979-03-05Ample collection of short stories, with essays, notes and questions for each. Third edition. First published in 1943.
Understanding Poetry by ISBN: 9780030769801Publication Date: 1988The fourth edition of UNDERSTANDING POETRY is a re-inspection of poetry. Keeping it teachable and flexible, the material allows for full and innocent immersion as well as raising inductive questions to develop critical and analytical skills. Students will be led to understand poetry as a means of imaginatively extending their own experience and indeed, probing the possibilities of the self. This latest incarnation of the landmark text facilitates a thorough study of poetry. First published in 1938.
The Well Wrought Urn by ISBN: 9780156957052Publication Date: 1956-02-23A classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.
William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by ISBN: 9780807116012Publication Date: 1990Hailed by critics and scholars as the most valuable study of Faulkner's fiction, Cleanth Brooks's William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country explores the Mississippi writer's fictional county and the commanding role it played in so much of his work. Brooks shows that Faulkner's strong attachment to his region, with its rich particularity and deep sense of community, gave him a special vantage point from which to view the modern world.Books's consideration of such novels as Light in August, The Unvanquished, As I Lay Dying, and Intruder in the Dust shows the ways in which Faulkner used Yoknapatawpha County to examine the characteristic themes of the twentieth century. Contending that a complete understanding of Faulkner's writing cannot be had without a thorough grasp of fictional detail, Brooks gives careful attention to "what happens: In the Yoknapatawpha novels. He also includes useful genealogies of Faulkner's fictional clans and a character index. First published in 1963
William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond by ISBN: 9780807116029Publication Date: 1990In this companion volume to William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country, Cleanth Brooks takes an in-depth look at Faulkner's early poetry and prose as well as his five non-Yoknapatawpha novels -- Soldiers Pay, Mosquitoes, Pylon, The Wild Palms, and A Fable. Brooks also offers relevant clarification of some of his earlier interpretations of Faulkner that have been challenged -- most notably in the case of Faulkner that have been challenged -- most notable in the case of Absalom, Absalom!, which he considers Faulkner's greatest novel. Recognizing that the creative and imaginative center of Faulkner's art is Yoknapatawpha County, Brooks examines the merits of each of the works set beyond these boundaries and explores how these writings complement Faulkner as an artist. He sheds light on the literary sources that influenced Faulkner's early work and the technical innovations and general themes Faulkner was to develop in his later writing. The notes and appendixes with which Brooks concludes Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond serve only to amplify this comprehensive study. Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
William Faulkner: First Encounters by ISBN: 9780300033991Publication Date: 1985-09-10In this clear-sighted and enjoyable book, Cleanth Brooks, acknowledged to be "the best critic of our best novelist," introduces the general reader to Faulkner's most important novels and stories: The Sound and the Fury; As I lay Dying; The Hamlet; Go Down, Moses; Light in August; and Absalom, Absalom!; Brooks focuses on theme, character, and plot as well as on Faulkner's world--the fictional Yoknapatawpha County that provides a unique setting for Faulkner's tragicomic vision.
On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner by ISBN: 9780807128695Publication Date: 1987-11-01It seems appropriate, if not inevitable, that one of our best critics should be the foremost authority on one of our best novelists. Cleanth Brooks, the author of three seminal studies of William Faulkner, has been a serious student of that master craftsman's fiction for more than four decades. In this new collection, Brooks considers many of the important characteristics of Faulkner's work. He focuses more specifically than he has in the past on certain questions and in some instances offers rebuttals to what he considered unfair assessments of Faulkner. In the first essay, Brooks challenges the notion that Donald Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and other members of the Fugitive-Agrarian movement at Vanderbilt University were slow to recognize Faulkner's achievements. Indeed, Brooks provides clear evidence not only that the Fugitives were early supporters of Faulkner but that Faulkner and the Fugitives shared many concerns and ideas about their region. Brooks also writes about Faulkner's personal beliefs and demonstrates how the virtues Faulkner held in highest esteem -- such as courage and honor -- are embodied in his fiction. In two essays, "Faulkner and the Community" and "Faulkner's Two Cities," Brooks analyzes the importance of a closely knit world -- specifically the hill region of north Mississippi and the cities of Memphis and New Orleans -- to Faulkner's works. Brooks considers Faulkner's serious regard for the chivalric tradition, as well as his amusement in Gavin Stevens' exemplification of it in Intruder in the Dust and Requiem for a Nun. Faulkner's treatment of women characters, especially in Light in August and The Hamlet, is discussed, as are his ideas about the American Dream. These essays are vintage Brooks. The prose is, as always, felicitous, the manner modest and winning, the thought pertinent and rigorous. Despite the thematic diversity of the essays, the emphasis is ultimately the same: reading and rereading the novels of William Faulkner is a continuing pleasure and an enduring challenge.
- The Possibilities of Order: Cleanth Brooks and His Work byISBN: 9780807101650Publication Date: 1976-02-01Contents: Warren, R.P.A conversation with Cleanth Brooks.--Tate, A. What I owe to Cleanth Brooks.--Heilman, R.B. Cleanth Brooks: some snapshots, mostly from an old album.--Ong, W.J. From rhetorical culture to new criticism: the poem as a closed field.--Young, T.D.A little divergence: the critical theories of John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks.--Wellek, R. Cleanth Brooks, critic of critics.--Spears, M.K. Cleanth Brooks and the responsibilities of criticism.
Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism by ISBN: 9780813916477Publication Date: 1996-07-22During a career that spanned sixty years, Cleanth Brooks was involved in most of the major controversies facing the humanities from the 1930s until his death in 1994. He was arguably the most important American literary critic of the mid-twentieth century. Because it is impossible to understand modern literary criticism apart from Cleanth Brooks, or Cleanth Brooks apart from modern literary criticism, Mark Royden Winchell gives us not only an account of one man's influence but also a survey of literary criticism in twentieth-century America. More than any other individual, Brooks helped steer literary study away from historical and philological scholarship by emphasizing the autonomy of the text. He applied the methods of what came to be called the New Criticism, not only to the modernist works for which these methods were created, but to the entire canon of English poetry, from John Donne to William Butler Yeats. In his many critical books, especially The Well Wrought Urn and the textbooks he edited with Robert Penn Warren and others, Brooks taught several generations of students how to read literature without prejudice or preconception.- Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren byISBN: 9780826211651Publication Date: 1998-04-30James A. Grimshaw, Jr., brings together for the first time more than 350 letters exchanged by two scholars who altered the way literature is taught in this country. The selected letters focus on the development of their five major textbooks--the rationale for selections, the details involved in obtaining permissions and preparing indexes, and the demands of meeting deadlines. More important, these letters reveal their attitudes toward literature, teaching, and scholarship. Providing insight into two of the most influential literary minds of this century, these letters show two men who were deeply involved in research and writing, and who were committed to a life of travel, conversation, and learning. Their zest for life and their love of literature explain, in part, their uncanny ability to persevere and to succeed. Yet their human qualities are also present in the letters, which bring Brooks and Warren to life as rare individuals able to sustain a deep, lifelong friendship. Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren will help readers better understand the critical work of Brooks and the creative work of Warren. Students and teachers of American literature will find this book indispensable.
- Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942 byISBN: 9780807111437Publication Date: 1984-06-01Parnassus on the Mississippi is a history of the short-lived yet remarkable productive epoch when, in the words of C. Vann Woodward, "the center of the avant-garde of American literary criticism shifted temporarily to the banks of the Mississippi at Baton Rouge." Beginning with the establishment of the Southern Review at Louisiana State University in 1935, Baton Rouge became the home not only to a brand of criticism that would reshape the teaching of literature in America but also to a community of scholars and artists that included Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, and Peter Taylor. Thomas Cutrer chronicles how the Southern Review, created in the midst of the Depression by the largess of Louisiana governor Huey P. Long, quickly rose to the position of the finest American literary journal of its day. Under the joint editorship of Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, the journal published criticism, poetry, and short fiction by writers as eminent as R.P. Blackmur, Kenneth Burke, T.S. Elliot, and Wallace Stevens. The editors also encouraged and published works by such young talented, and at the time unknown writers as Nelson Algren, Randall Jarrell, Mary McCarthy, and Eudora Welty. During these same years, Brooks and Warren collaborated on three textbooks--An Approach to Literature, Understanding Poetry, and Understanding Fiction--which would revolutionize college English by emphasizing the study of a literary work itself, in concrete and precise terms, over the study of the biographical, historical, and moral issues surrounding it. Brooks also wrote his influential critical works Modern Poetry and Tradition and The Well Wrought Urn, while Warren wrote two novels and some of his finest poems and stories, and absorbed material from the political tumult around him for the work that would later become All the King's Men. The stature of the Southern Review and the vitality of the literary community that it spawned were both, to a great extent, born of the dedication and creativity of Books and Warren, but in other very tangible ways, they were also by-products of the ambition of Huey Long; ironically, it was the actions of one of the assassinated governor's loyalists that brought an end to Baton Rouge's time as a Parnassus. After a financial scandal rocked the university, a reform administration was appointed which, in its zeal to curb a runaway budget, stopped the funding for the review. Soon after, Brooks and Warren both left the faculty. The Southern Review itself would lie dormant until its revival two decades later.
Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976 by ISBN: 9780826212078Publication Date: 1998-12-15Offering all of the extant letters exchanged by two of the twentieth century's most distinguished literary figures, Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976 vividly depicts the remarkable relationship, both professional and personal, between Brooks and Tate over the course of their lifelong friendship. An accomplished poet, critic, biographer, and teacher, Allen Tate had a powerful influence on the literary world of his era. Editor of the Fugitive and the Sewanee Review, Tate greatly affected the lives and careers of his fellow literati, including Cleanth Brooks. Esteemed co-editor of An Approach to Literature and Understanding Poetry, Brooks was one of the principal creators of the New Criticism. His Modern Poetry and the Tradition and The Well Wrought Urn, as well as his two-volume study of Faulkner, remain among the classics read by any serious student of literature. The correspondence between these two gentlemen-scholars, which began in the 1930s, extended over five decades and covered a vast amount of twentieth-century literary history. In the more than 250 letters collected here, the reader will encounter their shared concerns for and responses to the work of their numerous friends and many prominent writers, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Robert Lowell. Their letters offer details about their own developing careers and also provide striking insight into the group dynamics of the Agrarians, the noteworthy community of southern writers who played so influential a role in the literature of modernism. Brooks once said that Tate treated him like a younger brother, and despite great differences between their personalities and characters, these two figures each felt deep brotherly affection for the other. Whether they contain warm invitations for the one to visit the other, genteel or honest commentaries on their families and friends, or descriptions of the vast array of social, professional, and even political activities each experienced, the letters of Brooks and Tate clearly reveal the personalities of both men and the powerful ties of their strong camaraderie. Invaluable to both students and teachers of literature, Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate provides a substantial contribution to the study of twentieth-century American, and particularly southern, literary history.- Cleanth Brooks: His Critical Formulations byISBN: 9788185151502Publication Date: 1991-05-01Contents: Cleanth Brooks : an introduction / R.R. Bhardwaj -- The critical credo of Cleanth Brooks / Naresh Chandra -- Cleanth Brooks on metaphor and cognition in poetry / C.T. Indra -- Cleanth Brooks' idea of tradition / A.N. Dwivedi -- Cleanth Brooks and the language of poetry / B. Ramachandra Rao -- Cleanth Brooks and Coleridge / Mumta Gupta -- S.T. Coleridge and Cleanth Brooks / Sukhdev Singh -- Cleanth Brooks and R.S. Crane / Tejinder Kaur -- Cleanth Brooks and other contemporary critics / R.S. Singh -- Cleanth Brooks as a practical critic of poetry / Sant Singh Bal -- Cleanth Brooks as a critic of fiction / Bhagwati Singh -- A correspondence with Cleanth Brooks / C.T Indra.
- Cleanth Brooks and the Art of Reading Poetry byISBN: 9780718715885Publication Date: 1997Cleanth Brooks Lecture on American Literature and Culture, 1998.
- The Fugitives, the Agrarians, and Other Twentieth-Century Southern Writers byPublication Date: 1985Named persons: Cleanth Brooks; Donald Davidson; John Gould Fletcher; John Crowe Ransom; Allen Tate; Robert Penn Warren; John Peale Bishop; Andrew Nelson Lytle.
- "My boys at LSU": Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1934-1942 byPublication Date: 1980Ph. D. dissertation from the University of Texas at Austin.
- The Phoenix and the Urn: The Literary Theory and Criticism of Cleanth Brooks byPublication Date: 1966Ph. D. dissertation from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
- Cleanth Brooks and the Formalist Approach to Metaphysical and Moral Values in Literature byPublication Date: 1963Ph. D. dissertation from the University of Southern California.
- Understanding Brooks: A Study of the Critical Postulates of Cleanth Brooks byISBN: 9788178440187Publication Date: 2001Criticism, interpretation; 167 pages.
- Interview with Cleanth Brooks, March 31, 1978Curated by the University of Kentucky, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. Part of the Kentucky Writers Oral History Project. Summary: Cleanth Brooks talks about how his Southern classical education, his early reading of T. S. Eliot, and his meeting with Eric Voegelin all contributed to his career as a literary critic and his worldview as a whole.
- Interview with Cleanth Brooks, May 10, 1978Curated by the University of Kentucky, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. Part of the Robert Penn Warren Oral History Project. Summary: Brooks reflects upon his friendship with former colleague at both Yale and Louisiana State Universities, Robert Penn Warren. The course of their acquaintance is given in chronological order. Their tenures at LSU are emphasized, including the establishment of the Southern Review (a literary quarterly). Warren and Brooks' collaborations on several textbooks are mentioned as well. The more recent years between the two are recalled, including their time as professors at Yale. Lastly, Brooks characterizes the disposition of Warren.
- Cleanth Brooks papers (University of Kentucky)Housed at the University of Kentucky, Special Collections Research Center. The Cleanth Brooks papers (dated 1948-1967, undated; 2 cubic feet; 6 boxes) contain works both written by and gathered by Brooks during his career as an English professor and literary critic. The lectures, articles, essays, and texts included in the collection are examples of the New Criticism movement in post-modern America. Many of the lectures were given at academic institutions and literary conferences in the 1950s and 1960s. Topics include T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yates, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Percy, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.
- Cleanth Brooks lettersHoused at the University of Kentucky, Special Collections Research Center. The Cleanth Brooks letters (dated 1939-1947, 1964; 0.1 cubic feet; 1 folder) consists of Brooks' letters to Arthur Mizener concerning the publication of the literary journal The Southern Review.
- Cleanth Brook papers (Yale)Housed at Yale University Archives. Summary: "The Cleanth Brooks Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts of books, textbooks, essays, lectures, and various other shorter works, classroom material, professional papers, writings of others, and personal papers which document aspects of the life and career of Cleanth Brooks, literary critic, scholar, educator, and lecturer. The material spans the years 1927 to 1986, with the bulk falling between 1960 and 1986."
- Cleanth Brooks papers (Vanderbilt University)Housed at Vanderbilt University, Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries. Summary: "This small collection (.21 linear feet ) includes correspondence between Cleanth Brooks and a number of Vanderbilt University faculty about the Fugitive Poets Reunion at Vanderbilt in 1956, the Literary Symposia in 1958 and 1964, and other literary and academic matters. There are also newspaper clippings and articles and several photographs taken by Merrill Moore at the 1956 Fugitive Poets Reunion at Vanderbilt."
- Cleanth Brooks papers (University of Toledo)Housed at the University of Toledo, The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections. Summary: "Papers I cover the period from 1949-1977. They consist of twelve letters from Brooks to George Core, copies of the text of a 1949 radio interview, and two essays (1950 and 1958). The letters were written to Core between 1972 and 1977 when he was a member of the faculty of the University of Georgia. Core has edited several books including Regionalism and Beyond: Essays of Randall Stewart, with M. E. Bradford; The Southern Tradition at Bayby Richard Weaver; and Southern Fiction Today: Renascence and Beyond with essays by Walter Sullivan, C. Holman, and Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (a Scholar's Library selection). Mr. Core served as editor of The Sewanee Review and has also written essays and reviews for a number of other journals including The Southern Review and The Georgia Review. The correspondence between the two writers begins with the December 23, 1972 letter in which Cleanth Brooks tells Core, "thanks for, what is really the most handsome of Christmas presents, your essay on my work." Brooks goes on to say, "I would like to explore with you further, privately, some of my speculations about the literary and cultural scene." In this letter and the remaining letters in the collection, Brooks tells Core about his plans for submitting articles for publication to The Sewanee Review and his other projects which include writing an American Literature textbook and a second Faulkner volume. Other topics range from presenting a paper at the Allen Tate birthday celebration in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1974 to the politics at Yale University. The text of the radio interview with Cleanth Brooks which aired on March 6, 1949 at Yale University is entitled, "Onslaught of Science and Technology May Lead to General Cultural Deterioration." The discussion centers on the future of the humanities and liberal education itself. The first essay in the collection, "The Crisis in Culture," originally appeared in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin on July 8, 1950. In it, Brooks discusses William Wordsworth's ideas on the standards of culture during his time and Brooks reveals his own thoughts on the significance of the arts, and especially the arts of language, in determining the health of a culture. The second essay entitled, "Modem Poetry: Its Aim and Its Spirit" was presented by Cleanth Brooks at a Yale alumni seminar in June of 1958. In this paper, he presents examples of works by various poets, together with his interpretation, for the purpose of determining if modem poetry can be called poetry.
Cleanth Brooks Papers II consists of twenty-one letters to Professor Walter Laurence Sullivan which date from November 29, 1963 through October 10, 1991.
Cleanth Brooks Papers III contains eleven letters (eight from Brooks and three from his wife, Tinkham) to Stuart Wright at Palaemon Press Ltd. in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They date from February 25, 1981 to November 23, 1985.
- Cleanth Brooks at WikipediaWikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Cleanth Brooks: An Annotated Bibliography by ISBN: 9780824049416Publication Date: 1990-01-01First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 1208.; Garland bibliographies of modern critics and critical schools, v. 14.
Brooks, Farleigh
- Name(s)
- Farleigh Brooks
- Date of Birth
- November 20, 1953
- Louisville, KY
- Residence(s)
- Hometown: Louisville, KY
- Residence: Louisville, KY
- Education
- Ballard High School, Jefferson County, KY
- Spalding University, B. S., 1985
- Awards
- Winner of the 2003 Leon V. Driskell Short Story Contest
- Employment
- Occupation(s)
- Writer
Notes of a Would-Be Astronaut by ISBN: 1591297192Publication Date: 2002-10-08Tom McAllister finally answers the call of the open road. His itch, fermenting for years, erupts into present reality when his daughters rag on Janis Joplin while watching MTV. Now he has a need for escape velocity, and to somehow reclaim July boyhood afternoons. At a Chevy dealership, clutching $30,000, he buys a screaming-yellow Corvette to achieve escape velocity. He hits the road without warning, leaving behind family and success. Tom begins wandering across America, meeting people he'd never find most anywhere in his suburban life. Included are an ex-NASA engineer from the heydays of Apollo and a kid pimping himself on Hollywood Blvd. He also meets David, a trust fund hippie and rudderless nomad. David's shrinking world has delivered him to a black hole of fate. In David, Tom sees what he might become, ultimately facing his reality on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.- Mr. Willy & Arthur byPublication Date: 2016This story is a smashup, an imagined meeting between Boo Radley and Willy Loman. The author has taken certain liberties with time and character (but just a few) to pull this crossing of paths together.
Brooks, F. Erik
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- Name(s)
- F. Erik Brooks
- Date of Birth
- January 7, 1967
- Residence(s)
- Hometown: Montgomery, Alabama
- Statesboro, Georgia area, c.2002-2012
- Macomb, Illinois area, c.2012-2018
- Lexington, Fayette County area, c.2018-present
- Education
- Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Richmond, Virginia, 2002
- M.Ed. in Secondary Education, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama, 1999
- M.P.A. in Public Administration, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, 1998
- M.S. in Agency Counseling and Human Development, Troy University, Troy, Alabama, 1992
- B.S. in Journalism and Art, Kappa Alpha Psi, Troy University, Troy Alabama, 1989
- Life Events
- Awards and Recognitions
- L.J. Best Reference Winner for African Americans and the Presidents: Politics and Policies from Washington to Trump, 2019, 2020
- Employment
- Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Whitney Young Honors Collegium, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky, 2018-present
- Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, 2012-2018
- Associate Director of the Centennial Honors College, 2017-2018
- Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies, 2012-2017
- Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, 2002-2012
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Professor
- Educator
- Writer
- Speaker
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Barack Obama by ISBN: 9781440859137Publication Date: 2019-10-07An essential resource for readers analyzing the presidency of Barack Obama, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the life of 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama stated, "Our destiny is not written for us. It is written by us." Was the former president talking about himself and his rise to the American presidency? On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, the first African American to be elected to this office. Former President Obama's politics of unity appealed to many segments of American society. When Obama became president, the United States faced challenges at home and abroad. Internationally, the country was stalled in two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Domestically, the country faced a financial and banking crisis, and poverty was on the rise. Undaunted by these colossal challenges, former President Obama noted, "We did not come to fear the future. We came to shape it." Barack Obama: A Life in American History discusses the life of Barack Obama chronologically and discusses his post-presidential life. Readers of all levels with an interest in Barack Obama, politics, political parties, political ideology, presidential elections, government, and the U.S. presidency will find this book compelling. * Provides readers with insight into Barack Obama's rise in politics, from community organizer to president, the highest political office in the United States * Provides an understanding of how the Obama presidency had a significant impact on the United States * Deconstructs key events during the first and second terms of the Obama presidency * Examines the Obama administration's foreign and domestic policies- Jesse Owens: A Life in American History byISBN: 9781440873829Publication Date: 2020-04-26A compelling resource for sports enthusiasts, Jesse Owens: A Life in American History places the life and athletic accomplishments of Jesse Owens within the context of race and American history in the early 20th century. The year 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest track and field athletes in intercollegiate and Olympic history. This book examines Jesse Owens' upbringing, religious and spiritual life, and collegiate years and includes an examination of race, politics, and Nazi Germany as a backdrop to the 1936 Olympics. It also considers Owens' personal economic hardships after his triumph at the Olympic Games, his death, and his legacy. This biography series title will appeal to general readers, history buffs, and sports enthusiasts. Chapters are organized around the major developments in Jesse Owens' life, from his birth in Oakville, Alabama in 1913 to his death in Tucson, Arizona in 1980, and all of his groundbreaking athletic achievements in between. Primary source documents, sidebars, a timeline, and a bibliography provide valuable additional information for readers. The final chapter, "Why Jesse Owens Matters," explores his cultural and historical significance. Provides readers with an understanding of race, politics, amateur athletics, and the 1936 summer Olympic Games Demonstrates how pivotal moments in the life of Jesse Owens worked together to make him a champion Shows the importance of family, coaches, and friends in Owens' life and career Illustrates the importance of Owens' performance in the Berlin Olympics and how it created a platform for other African American athletes
Thurgood Marshall: A Biography by ISBN: 9780313349164Publication Date: 2012-04-06This book provides a detailed examination of the life and legal legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, including a discussion of the many legal cases in which he was involved. Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. As a lawyer, he won the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that integrated all public schools in the United States. But Marshall's contributions extend far beyond significantly advancing the civil rights movement in this nation. Thurgood Marshall: A Biography discusses the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in a chronological fashion, and then discusses his legacy after death. Students at all grade levels--including undergraduate and graduate college students--as well as historians and general readers interested in African American history , civil rights, or the U.S. legal system will find this book insightful and useful. * A chronological timeline of the life of Thurgood Marshall * A bibliography provides useful references
African American Student's Guide to College Success by ISBN: 9781440829291Publication Date: 2015-10-21This encouraging guide coaches African American and first-generation college students on strategies for maximizing their experiences and success on university campuses. Marked gaps in academic achievements continue to exist between white and black students on college campuses in America. This motivational book, with contributions from academic role models from within the African American community, provides tools to help ethnically diverse students choose the best college, improve their study skills, and cope with academic anxiety. From college selection to graduation, this practical resource provides firsthand accounts of successful college experiences and the strategies used by former students to obtain their degrees. This work is divided into four parts. After an introductory section that addresses how to find the right college for aspiring students, the second part discusses the culture of an academic environment and reveals what incoming students may discover on a new campus. The third section introduces the language and lingo used in college settings. Finally, the guide concludes with conversations with successful African Americans who have achieved their undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. The content also features a helpful college and university directory. * Offers strategies to assist African American students with succeeding in college * Reveals stories of African American graduates and tips for assimilating into an academic environment * Provides detailed and updated resources on schools and organizations * Explains logistics, operations, and terms used on college campuses.- Defining Their Destiny: The Story of the Willow Hill School byISBN: 9780981666006Publication Date: 2011
Guts, Glory, and the Gridiron: A History of Georgia Southern University Football by ISBN: 9781933483191Publication Date: 2009-04-01History of Georgia Southern University football.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Encyclopedia by ISBN: 9780313394157Publication Date: 2011-09-13This exhaustive analysis of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) throughout history discusses the institutions and the major events, individuals, and organizations that have contributed to their existence. The oldest HBCU, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, was founded in 1837 by Quaker philanthropist Richard Humphreys as the Institute for Colored Youth. By 1902, at least 85 such schools had been established and, in subsequent years, the total grew to 105. Today approximately 16 percent of America's black college students are enrolled in HBCUs. Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Encyclopedia brings the stories of these schools together in a comprehensive volume that explores the origin and history of each Historically Black College and University in the United States. Major founders and contributors to HBCUs, including whites, free blacks, churches, and states, are discussed and distinguished alumni are profiled. Specific examples of the impact of HBCUs and their alumni on American culture and the social and political history of the United States are also examined. In addition to looking at the HBCUs themselves, the book analyzes historical events and legislation of the past 174 years that impacted the founding, funding, and growth of these history-making schools. * A complete timeline of events extending from the founding of the first HBCU in 1837 through the 21st century * Photographs of HBCUs and key figures in their histories over a 150-year period * Presidential executive orders and transcripts of major legislation that have impacted HBCUs * An exhaustive list of over 1,000 prominent alumni of HBCUs and short, professional biographies of each * Biographical information on major figures and organizations that have supported HBCUs * A bibliography, including online resources and DVDs
Pursuing a Promise: A History of African Americans at Georgia Southern University by ISBN: 9780881460186Publication Date: 2006-04-01In Statesboro, Georgia, two schools coexisted: one white and the other black. Yet, these schools were intertwined by their geographical location and the traditions of the segregated South. There are many glaring similarities between the white students of Georgia Southern University's forerunner, the First District A&M School, and the black students of the Statesboro Industrial and High School. Yet as happened all too often in the South as implementation of the federal court's desegregation orders took shape, "Negro" schools were downgraded or outright closed. Statesboro was no different. While, First District A&M became a regional university, Statesboro Industrial and High School was downgraded to a junior high school. In 1961, integration on the higher-education level at Georgia's flagship university captured national attention. Few works if any have examined desegregation in the context of non-flagship universities. Likewise, there is a misguided mythology that desegregation occurred quietly at Georgia Southern University: it's clear that while there was not the violence and rioting seen elsewhere in Southern universities, blacks were marginalized and did not feel welcome at the college. A passive group after the initial integration, blacks adopted tactics of protest and confrontation to empower themselves. Taking a page from the Civil Rights Movement, black students and faculty established organizations to confront discrimination and gain access to campus leadership positions. This is a story about the defeats, victories, struggles, and developments of blacks at Georgia Southern University.
The Student Athlete's Guide to College Success by ISBN: 9781440847035Publication Date: 2016-11-21An invaluable guide for potential collegiate student athletes, this guide presents strategies to assist student athletes with life skills both inside and outside of the classroom and athletic arenas. Student athletes must overcome a gauntlet of challenges in order to be successful in college. This guide supports student athlete success by identifying various potential issues and providing specific guidance and advice based on the author's direct experience and insider knowledge. It presents potential collegiate athletes with a wide-ranging and inclusive view of the intercollegiate sport experience and a comprehensive explanation of the role of the student athlete. This book is a comprehensive guide for student athletes and their families that will assist in deliberating scholarship offers from multiple institutions and setting a course for success in college. Readers will be equipped to determine which scholarship option--and in some cases, which sport or sports--is the optimal choice, be knowledgeable about their financial aid options and the rules of recruiting, and be prepared with a list of suggested questions that American student athletes should ask coaches and recruiting officials wishing to pursue their talents. This guide provides the essential strategies that will enable student athletes to gain life skills both inside and outside of the classroom and athletic arenas. * Represents a unique resource that supports the success of collegiate athletes * Covers specific topics and situations that are relevant to collegiate athletes, from recruiting to post-athletic involvement * Shares real-world stories that document the experiences of former collegiate athletes * Provides details and resources on schools and organizations
Tigers in the Tempest: Savannah State University and the Struggle for Civil Rights by ISBN: 9780881464948Publication Date: 2015-01-31Savannah State University is Georgia's oldest public historically black university. From its inception as the black land grant college in 1890, the roots of black activism were a core element of the school's existence. As a young boy, Savannah State's founder Richard R. Wright was asked by General O. O. Howard, "What he should tell Northerners about the newly freed slaves in the South?" Wright boldly responded, "Tell them that we are rising." Years after this encounter and as the leader of Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, (Savannah State University's forerunner) Wright and many of the citizens of Savannah bravely and brilliantly advanced the ideas of black independence, self-reliance, and equal rights. These concepts would later be used as motivating factors in orchestrating demonstrations and boycotts in the Civil Rights movement in Savannah. In this provocative exploration of the issues of race, politics, and higher education in Savannah, Georgia, Brooks unveils how Georgia's political climate affected the growth and progression at Savannah State University. Brooks interweaves local, state, national politics, the history of the university, and the Civil Rights movement as a backdrop to showcase Savannah State University students' participation in the struggle for equality from the institution's beginning in 1890 to the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States in 2008. Additionally, Brooks reveals that not only have students fought for civil rights issues external to the university but they have also fought for rights internal to the university.
- "Memories of Montgomery & the Bus Boycott"Segment on the TriStates Public Radio with F. Erik Brooks, by Rich Egger; December 4, 2015.
Brown, Skila
- Name(s)
- Skila Brown
- Date of Birth
- Stearns, McCreary County, Kentucky
- Residence(s)
- Stearns, McCreary County, Kentucky
- Tennessee
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Guatemala
- Indiana
- Education
- M.F.A., Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont
- B.A., Centre College, Danville, Kentucky
- Life Events
- Married, three sons
- Awards and Recognitions
- Notable Children's Book: Older Readers Award from the American Library Association for To Stay Alive, 2017
- Caminar Commended for Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature, 2015
- Caminar Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, 2015
- Employment
- Freelance writer
- Teacher, pre-school, Kindergarten, grade school
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Teacher
- Writer
Caminar by ISBN: 9780763665166Publication Date: 2014-03-25Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war. Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet - he's still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at the villagers, and before they move on, a neighbor is found dangling from a tree, a sign on his neck: Communist. Mama tells Carlos to run and hide, then try to find her. . . . Numb and alone, he must join a band of guerillas as they trek to the top of the mountain where Carlos's abuela lives. Will he be in time, and brave enough, to warn them about the soldiers? What will he do then? A novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, Caminar is the moving story of a boy who loses nearly everything before discovering who he really is. Commended for Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature (Children/Young Adult) 2015. Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Ten to Fourteen) 2015.
To Stay Alive by ISBN: 9780763678111Publication Date: 2016-10-11Told in riveting, keenly observed poetry, a moving first-person narrative as experienced by a young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846. The journey west by wagon train promises to be long and arduous for nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Graves and her parents and eight siblings. Yet she is hopeful about their new life in California: freedom from the demands of family, maybe some romance, better opportunities for all. But when winter comes early to the Sierra Nevada and their group gets a late start, the Graves family, traveling alongside the Donner and Reed parties, must endure one of the most harrowing and storied journeys in American history. Amid the pain of loss and the constant threat of death from starvation or cold, Mary Ann's is a narrative, told beautifully in verse, of a girl learning what it means to be part of a family, to make sacrifices for those we love, and above all to persevere. American Library Association Notable Children's Book: Older Readers; 2017.
Clackety Track: Poems About Trains by ISBN: 9780763690472Publication Date: 2019-03-12Queue up for a whistle-stop tour of trains of all kinds, narrated in lively verse and featuring dynamic retro artwork.Rows of grooves, cables, and bars. Graffiti rockin' out the cars. A badge of rust. A proud oil stain. There's nothin' plain about a train.Trains of all shapes and sizes are coming down the track - bullet train, sleeper train, underground train, zoo train, and more. All aboard! Skila Brown's first-class poems, as varied as the trains themselves, reflect the excitement of train travel, while Jamey Christoph's vintage-style illustrations provide a wealth of authentic detail to pore over.
Slickety Quick: Poems about Sharks by ISBN: 9780763665432Publication Date: 2016-03-08Fourteen shark species, from the utterly terrifying to the surprisingly docile, glide through the pages of this vibrantly illustrated, poetic picture book.From the enormous whale shark to the legendary great white to the enigmatic goblin shark to the small cookie-cutter shark, Slickety Quick is a delightful frenzy of shark mayhem. Mysterious species such as the camouflaged wobbegong and the elusive frilled shark share the waters with better-known blue and nurse sharks, each commemorated in a poem by Skila Brown and illustrated by Bob Kolar. Sneaky shark facts ripple through each spread to further inform the brave and curious young reader intrigued by the power - and danger - of these amazing creatures.
Brown, William Wells
- Name(s)
- William Wells Brown
- Date of Birth
- 1814
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Date of Death
- November 6, 1884
- Chelsea, Massachusetts
- Residences
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, born
- St. Louis, Missouri, youth and young adulthood in slavery
- Buffalo, New York, about 1836-1845, ferried fugitive slaves to freedom
- Europe, about 1849-1854 lecturer, writer
- Boston, Massachusetts, 1854-
- Education
- Self-educated
- Life Events
- Born a slave, escaped to freedom after about 20 years in January, 1834
- Adopted the name of Wells Brown, a Quaker who aided in his escape
- Married Elizabeth Spooner, a free black woman, and had 3 daughters (one died in infancy)
- Brown and Elizabeth later became estranged
- Elizabeth died in 1851
- Began a lecture tour in Britain in 1849, and remained in Europe until 1854
- Legacy
- First African-American to publish a novel, Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. Published in 1853 in London
- Elementary school in Lexington, Kentucky is named after him
- Among the first writers inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, 2013
- Historic marker in Buffalo near the approximate location of his home
- Employment
- Abolitionist, worked on Lake Erie
- Writer
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Author
- Novelist
- Orator
- Homeopathic physician
- Abolitionist
- Dramatist
- Historian
- American Fugitive in Europe, Sketches of Places and People Abroad byPublication Date: 1969Reprint of 1855 ed. published by J.P. Jewett and Co.
An enlarged edition of the author's Three years in Europe, published in London, 1852. - The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings byPublication Date: 1851Electronic reproduction. HathiTrust Digital Library, 2008. MiAaHDL.
The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements by Publication Date: 2007Memoir of the author. Originally published in 1865. Brief (1-10 pages) biographies of notable blacks, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries, and most are Americans. Also includes an autobiography of the author.
Clotel, or, the President's Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States by Publication Date: 2008Reprint. Originally published in 1853. William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer and lecturer. In 1847, he published the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself, which became a bestseller second only to Frederick Douglass' narrative. He was also a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama, and wrote what is considered to be the first novel by an African American: Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853). However, because the novel was published in England, the book is not the first African-American novel published in the United States. Most scholars agree that Brown is the first published African-American playwright. He wrote two plays, The Experience; or, How to Give a Northern Man a Backbone (1856) and The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858). Brown also wrote several historical works, including: The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), The Negro in the American Revolution (1867) and The Rising Son (1873).
Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine: A Tale of the Southern States by Publication Date: 1998Clotelle; or the Colored Heroine by William Wells Brown (1814 - 1884) was originally printed by the Press of Geo. C Rand and Avery in 1867. This reproduction is reset line-for-line, page-for-page from a copy in the Negro Collection of the Fisk University Library by Jeffrey Young & Associates.
The Escape, or, A Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts by Publication Date: 2001A well-known nineteenth-century abolitionist and former slave, William Wells Brown was a prolific writer and lecturer who captivated audiences with readings of his drama The Escape; or, a Leap for Freedom (1858). The first published play by an African American writer, The Escape explored the complexities of American culture at a time when tensions between North and South were about to explode into the Civil War. This new volume presents the first-edition text of Brown's play and features an extensive introduction that establishes the work's continuing significance. The Escape centers on the attempted sexual violation of a slave and involves many characters of mixed race, through which Brown commented on such themes as moral decay, white racism, and black self-determination. Rich in action and faithful in dialect, it raises issues relating not only to race but also to gender by including concepts of black and white masculinity and the culture of southern white and enslaved women. It portrays a world in which slavery provided a convenient means of distinguishing between the white North and the white South, allowing northerners to express moral sentiments without recognizing or addressing the racial prejudice pervasive among whites in both regions. John Ernest's introductory essay balances the play's historical and literary contexts, including information on Brown and his career, as well as on slavery, abolitionism, and sectional politics. It also discusses the legends and realities of the Underground Railroad, examines the role of antebellum performance art--including blackface minstrelsy and stage versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin--in the construction of race and national identity, and provides an introduction to theories of identity as performance. A century and a half after its initial appearance, The Escape remains essential reading for students of African American literature. Ernest's keen analysis of this classic play will enrich readers' appreciation of both the drama itself and the era in which it appeared.- A lecture delivered before the Female Anti-slavery Society of Salem : at Lyceum Hall, Nov. 14, 1847 byPublication Date: 1847Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.
My Southern Home: The South and Its People by Publication Date: 2011The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first African American novelist for his Clotel (1853), was born enslaved in Kentucky and escaped to Ohio in 1834. In this comprehensive edition, John Ernest acts as a surefooted guide to this seminal work, beginning with a substantial introduction placing Brown's life and work in cultural and historical context. Brown addresses from a post-emancipation vantage point his early experiences and understanding of the world of slavery and describes his travels through many southern states. The text itself is presented in its original form, while Ernest's annotations highlight its layered complexity and document the many instances in which Brown borrows from his own earlier writings and the writings of others to form an underlying dialogue. This edition sheds new light on Brown's literary craft and provides readers with the maps they need to follow Brown on his quest for home in the chaotic social landscape of American southern culture in the final decades of the nineteenth century.
The Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave by Publication Date: 2003An influential force in the abolition movement and a lasting testimonial to the injustice of slavery, Brown's Narrative was an instant bestseller upon its 1847 publication and remains essential reading. It offers a sincere and moving account of the author's experiences during the first 20 years of his life as a slave in Missouri.
The Negro in the American Rebellion by Publication Date: 2003Originally published: Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867. William Wells Brown's book is a military history of African Americans, assailing those whose hatred and ignorance inclined them to keep blacks oppressed. In his introduction John David Smith places it in context, and analyses its aims and its interpretation of black masculinity.- The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and Fidelity byPublication Date: 1971Reprint of the 1867 edition, with a new introduction and notes.
- Rising Son, Or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race byPublication Date: 1986Originally published in 1874. 552 pages; portraits; 23 cm.
Three Years in Europe; or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by Publication Date: 2008William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer and lecturer. In 1847, he published the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself, which became a bestseller second only to Frederick Douglassa€(TM) narrative. He was also a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama, and wrote what is considered to be the first novel by an African American: Clotel; or, The Presidenta€(TM)s Daughter (1853). However, because the novel was published in England, the book is not the first African-American novel published in the United States. Most scholars agree that Brown is the first published African-American playwright. He wrote two plays, The Experience; or, How to Give a Northern Man a Backbone (1856) and The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858). Brown also wrote several historical works, including: The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), The Negro in the American Revolution (1867) and The Rising Son (1873).
Abolitionist Geographies by Publication Date: 2014Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. Through the idiom Schoolman names "abolitionist geography,"these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of the internal slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law by appealing to other anachronistic, partial, or entirely fictional north-south and east-west axes. Abolitionism's West, for instance, rarely reached beyond the Mississippi River, but its East looked to Britain for ideological inspiration, its North habitually traversed the Canadian border, and its South often spanned the geopolitical divide between the United States and the British Caribbean.Schoolman traces this geography of dissent through the work of Martin Delany, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Her book explores new relationships between New England transcendentalism and the British West Indies; African-American cosmopolitanism, Britain, and Haiti; sentimental fiction, Ohio, and Liberia; John Brown's Appalachia and circum-Caribbean marronage. These connections allow us to see clearly for the first time abolitionist literature's explicit and intentional investment in geography as an idiom of political critique, by turns liberal and radical, practical and utopian.- Biography of an American Bondman, by his daughter. byPublication Date: 1855, 1856Electronic reproduction the original from the American Antiquarian Society, Sabin no. 8532.
- From Slave to Abolitionist: The Life of William Wells Brown byPublication Date: 1993Biography, juvenile audience. Based on The narrative of William W. Brown, published by the Boston Anti-Slavery Society in 1847. Reprint 1993. Originally published: 1976. "Jacket artwork and frontispiece by Tom Feelings."--Jacket. Designed by Atha Tehon.
Plagiarama! by Publication Date: 2016William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also an extensive plagiarist, copying at least 87,000 words from close to 300 texts. In this critical study of Brown's work and legacy, Geoffrey Sanborn offers a novel reading of the writer's plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T. Barnum. By creating the textual equivalent of a variety show, Brown animated antislavery discourse and evoked the prospect of a pleasurably integrated world. Brown's key dramatic protagonists were the "spirit of capitalization"--the unscrupulous double of Max Weber's spirit of capitalism--and the "beautiful slave girl," a light-skinned African American woman on the verge of sale and rape. Brown's unsettling portrayal of these figures unfolded within a riotous patchwork of second-hand texts, upset convention, and provoked the imagination. Could a slippery upstart lay the groundwork for a genuinely interracial society? Could the fetishized image of a not-yet-sold woman hold open the possibility of other destinies? Sanborn's analysis of pastiche and plagiarism adds new depth to the study of nineteenth-century culture and the history of African American literature, suggesting modes of African American writing that extend beyond narratives of necessity and purpose, characterized by the works of Frederick Douglass and others.- Puttin' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup byPublication Date: 1969Contents:
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave. --
Narrative of William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave. --
Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup. - Their Eyes on the Stars: Four Black Writers byPublication Date: 1973Biography. Juvenile audience. Traces the lives of four black writers, Jupiter Hammon, George Moses Horton, William Wells Brown, and Charles Waddell Chesnutt, who wrote of the Negro experience in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America.
William Wells Brown: An African American Life by Publication Date: 2014Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone's, "rented" out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man known as "Sandy" reinvented himself as "William Wells" Brown after escaping to freedom. He lifted himself out of illiteracy and soon became an innovative, widely admired, and hugely popular speaker on antislavery circuits (both American and British) and went on to write the earliest African American works in a plethora of genres: travelogue, novel (the now canonized Clotel), printed play, and history. He also practiced medicine, ran for office, and campaigned for black uplift, temperance, and civil rights.Ezra Greenspan's masterful work, elegantly written and rigorously researched, sets Brown's life in the richly rendered context of his times, creating a fascinating portrait of an inventive writer who dared to challenge the racial orthodoxies and explore the racial complexities of nineteenth-century America.- William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer byPublication Date: [1969]Series title: Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies
- William Wells Brown and Martin R. Delany: a Reference Guide byPublication Date: 1978Bibliography. Includes indexes. 276 pages.
William Wells Brown: A Reader by Publication Date: 2008Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements. Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African American military service in the Civil War. Brown also wrote one of the most important fugitive slave narratives and a striking array of subsequent self-narratives so inventively shifting in content, form, and textual presentation as to place him second only to Frederick Douglass among nineteenth-century African American autobiographers. Ezra Greenspan has selected the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. The volume opens with an introductory essay that places Brown and his work in a cultural and political context. Each chapter begins with a detailed introductory headnote, and the contents are closely annotated; there is also a selected bibliography. This reader offers an introduction to the work of a major African American writer who was engaged in many of the important debates of his time.
- William Wells Brown at WikipediaWikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Slave Narratives by Publication Date: 2000Consists of primary source material in the form of personal narrative. The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw;Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Narrative of William W. Brown; Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb; Narrative of Sojouner Truth; Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of J. D.Green. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Black Theater, U. S. A.: Forty-Five Plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974 by Publication Date: 1974An extensive sampling of works by black American playwrights that includes works by Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Childress.
All Authors/Contributors: Ira Frederick Aldridge; Victor Séjour; William Wells Brown; Joseph S Cotter; Garland Anderson; Angelina Weld Grimké; Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson; Mary Burrill; Myrtle Smith Livingston; Ruth Gaines-Shelton; Eulalie Spence; Marita Bonner; Georgia Douglas Johnson; Jean Toomer; John Frederick Matheus; Willis Richardson; Randolph Edmonds; H F V Edward; Langston Hughes; Theodore Ward; Owen Dodson; May Miller; Theodore Browne; Richard Wright; Paul Green; Stanley Richards; Abram Hill; Thomas D Pawley; James Baldwin; Louis Peterson; William B Branch; Loften Mitchell; Charles Sebree; C Bernard Jackson; James V Hatch; Douglas Turner Ward; Lorraine Hansberry; Alice Childress; Adrienne Kennedy; Martie Charles; Amiri Baraka; Ed Bullins; Ted Shine; Kalamu ya Salaam
Browne, Wesley
Photo: Chris Radcliffe Photography
- Name(s)
- Wesley Browne
- Wesley Ernest Earl Browne
- Date of Birth
- April 2, 1974
- Residences
- Richmond area, Madison County, Kentucky
- Education
- J.D., University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky
- Trial Advocacy Scholarship
- J.D., University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky
- Life events
- President, Madison County Bar Association, 2008-2009
- Member, Kentucky Justice Association
- Appointed member, City of Richmond Ethics Committee
- Founder and host of Pages & Pints Reading Series, Apollo Pizza, Richmond, Kentucky
- Married, two kids
- Employment
- Lead attorney, Browne Law Office, P.S.C., Richmond and Berea, Madison County, Kentucky
- Prosecutor, Madison County, Kentucky
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Lawyer
- Restaurant owner and manager
- Sports coach
- Writer
Hillbilly Hustle by ISBN: 9781949199284Publication Date: 2020-01-30Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into dealing marijuana by the proprietor--an arrangement Knox only halfheartedly resists. Knox's shop makes the perfect front for a marijuana operation, but his supplier turns out to be violent and calculating, and Knox ends up under his thumb. It's not long before more than just the pizza shop is at risk.
- Wesley Browne InterviewInterview in Bull magazine by Sheldon Lee Compton.
Bruckheimer, Linda
- Name(s)
- Linda Bruckheimer
- Linda Sue Bruckheimer
- Linda Sue Cobb
- Date of Birth
- July 9, 1945
- Victoria County, Texas
- Residence(s)
- Victoria County, Texas
- Hometown: Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Los Angeles, California
- Education
- Life Events
- Established the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature
- Served on the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Restored many buildings in Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky
- Married producer Jerry Bruckheimer, 1993
- Awards and Recognitions
- Received the Unbridled Charitable Foundation Inc. National Advocacy Award
- Named a Grand Marshal (with her husband, Jerry) of the Bloomfield Tobacco Festival Parade, 1998
- Employment
- Writer and producer for animations, PBS
- West Coast Editor of Mirabella, 1989-1995
- Occupation(s) / Field(s) of Activity
- Editor
- Writer
- Philanthropist
- Collector
Dreaming Southern by ISBN: 9780525944539Publication Date: 1999-01-01"Broke, with their furniture piled into a trailer, Lila Mae and her kids hit the road en route to a land of movie stars, swimming pools, and their share of the American Dream. In the backseat, sixteen-year-old Becky Jean ignores her mother and buries her head in Modern Screen. Twelve-year-old Carleen clutches a shopping bag of Katy Keene comic books, while a dart from six-year-old Billy Cooper's rubber dart gun bounces off their baby sister, Irene. For the Wootens, heading for the Golden State and for Lila Mae's husband Roy by way of Alabama, Louisiana, and Minnesota, there's no such thing as a direct route." "Especially when the Wootens meet Juanita Featherhorse and her pyromaniacal son, Benny. Soon they're driving toward the Grand Canyon using a secret route Juanita knows. Before they know it, Lila Mae, her kids, her trailer, and a car loaded full of magazines, banana peels, paraffin lips, and underwear are balanced on the edge of a steep cliff - with everyone hanging on for dear life."--BOOK JACKET.
The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way by ISBN: 9780525944546Publication Date: 2004-04-12Hailed as "a worthy successor to Fannie Flagg" (New York Post), nationally bestselling author Linda Bruckheimer follows up her acclaimed debut with a novel that brings back the irrepressible southern Wootens. The Dallas Morning News hailed Dreaming Southern, Linda Bruckheimer's first novel, as "comic, fast-paced, vividly recreates America in the 1950s." The Los Angeles Timescrowned it "zany," and Marie Clairemagazine dubbed it "a comic odyssey guaranteed to induce grins." Sisters Rebecca and Carleen, along with their daughters, are headed for Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, where they are looking forward to reuniting with their baby sister Irene for their mother's seventy-fifth birthday. But what begins as a road trip is really a journey of the heart for each sister as they put the pieces of their lives together before the big celebration. Rebecca decides to save Blue Lick Springs single-handedly from ruthless real estate developers bent on razing beloved landmarks to make way for parking lots. Carleen's hoping to right the world's wrongs with her weekly pet peeve column, but when an attractive McDonald's executive becomes her subject matter, she finds herself reevaluating her marriage. Encouraged by Lila Mae, Irene moves back to Kentucky to live with her ninety-five-year-old grandmother. Rather than getting away from it all, she ends up hiding in the bushes of a trailer park as she investigates an insurance scheme. And their feisty mother, Lila Mae, may still have a surprise or two in store for her lively progeny.- Road Map to Heaven: A Photographic Journey Through Unseen Kentucky byISBN: 9781945551840Publication Date: 2019-11-01Photographs, portraits; 205 pages.
- Linda Bruckheimer at WikipediaWikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- "'Blue Highway' is Kentucky Native Linda Bruckheimer's Bluegrass Love Letter"Article in the Courier-Journal by Kirby Adams, January 16, 2019