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Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong, published in 1969. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing a ham from work, the boy still hungers for an education.
Sounder is a 1972 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt and adapted by Lonne Elder III from the 1969 novel by William H. Armstrong. [4] The story concerns an African-American sharecropper family in the Deep South , who struggle with economic and personal hardships during the Great Depression .
In 1969, Armstrong published his masterpiece, an eight-chapter novel titled Sounder about an African-American sharecropping family. Praised by critics, Sounder won the John Newbery Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1970, and was adapted into a major motion picture in 1972 starring Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson.
Sounder may refer to: Sounder, a book by William H. Armstrong; Sounder, a film based on the novel; Sounder, a group of wild boar or domestic pigs foraging in woodland; see List of animal names; Sounder, a device that transmits a signal and uses the returned signal to measure characteristics of the propagation medium
William H. Armstrong (author) (1911–1999), author of the children's book Sounder; William Nevins Armstrong (1835–1905), Attorney General of Hawaii; William Armstrong (pilot) (1924–1945), member of the Tuskegee Airmen; William T. Armstrong (1929–2005), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation executive
Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958) is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable for his roles in Aaron Loves Angela and Sounder, but may be best known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow.
During her prolific career she acted in film and television projects such as The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), Sounder (1972), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Roots (1977), A Woman Called Moses (1978), Bustin' Loose (1981), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), A Lesson Before Dying (1999), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Diary of a Mad ...
The Hunter family dog, a remake of the 1963 movie The Incredible Journey based on the book by Sheila Burnford voiced by Michael J. Fox. Charlie Bearded Collie mix The Absent-Minded Professor: Professor Brainard's dog; about a college professor who invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself. Charlie Labrador ...