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Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 281
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 09:43 pm: | |
Hi Crystal 
I'm past the halfway point in:
"Richard Wright: The Life and Times" by Hazel Rowley
"Lost in the City" by Edward P. Jones
Finished these for author chats:
"Angelica" by Arthur Phillips
"The Shadow Catcher" by Marianne Wiggins
PS Arthur Phillips, Colson Whitehead, and Joshua Redman were all born in 1969 and graduated from Harvard, although Arthur a year earlier. My favorite is his lost generation novel "Prague." This one is a Victorian ghost story, while Marianne's is a fictional biography of Edward S. Curtis, the turn of the century ethnographer / photographer of Native Americans.
PPS I've also been reading from two recent books about Ralph Ellison:
"Shadowing Ralph Ellison" by John S. Wright (University Press of Mississippi, 2006)
"A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison" edited by Steven C. Tracy (Oxford University Press, 2004)
The latter features a 34-page essay by Ellison biographer Lawrence Patrick Jackson which explores some possibilities for why Ellison achieved iconic status while many of his contemporaries who published regularly barely receive "academic scrutiny."
Lawrence Jackson is working a biography of Chester Himes.
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