Cecil Brown (writer)

Cecil Brown
Born	(1943-07-03) July 3, 1943 (age 82) Bolton, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Writer and educator
Alma mater	North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Columbia University; University of Chicago
Period	1969–present

Cecil Brown (born July 3, 1943) ^[1] is an African-American writer and educator. He is a published novelist, short story writer, script writer, and college educator. His noted works include The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (1969) and work on the 1977 Richard Pryor film Which Way Is Up? as a screenwriter.

Biography

Born in rural Bolton, North Carolina, United States, ^[1] Brown attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University of Greenboro, where he earned his B.A. degree in English in 1966. He later attended Columbia University, and earned his M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1967. Brown while residing in Berkeley, California (to which he returned in the late 1980s and still lives and works), earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies, Folklore and Narrative in 1993. ^[2] He is a professor at UC Berkeley. ^[3]

Works

• The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (1969), ISBN   978-1-583-94210-9
• Pryor Lives (1969)
• Days without Weather (1983)
• Coming Up Down Home (1993)
• I, Stagolee (1993)
• Stagolee Shot Billy (2003), ISBN   978-0-674-01626-2
• Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department? (2007), ISBN   978-1-556-43573-7
• Journey's End (2007), ISBN   978-1-417-99328-4

Awards

• Columbia University English Dept., Professor John Angus Burrell Memorial Prize, 1966
• Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for Days Without Weather, 1984
• Berlin Literary Fellowship, 1985; Besonders Wertvoll Film Preises, 1986
• UC Berkeley, Mentor Fellowship, 1992

References

1. Dickson-Carr, Darryl (2005). The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction . Columbia University Press. p.  65. ISBN   0-231-12472-4.
2. Bullock, Ken (October 9, 2008). "The Life and Loves of Novelist Cecil Brown". The Berkeley Daily Planet.
3. "'How Richard Pryor Became Richard Pryor': an interview wit' author Cecil Brown". San Francisco Bay View . June 12, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2014.

External links

• Official website