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Anna Sewell (/ ˈ sj uː əl /; [2] 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) [1] was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work.It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. [3]
Ralph Waldo Ellison, named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, [5] was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Lewis Alfred Ellison and Ida Millsap, on March 1, 1913.He was the second of three sons; firstborn Alfred died in infancy, and younger brother Herbert Maurice (or Millsap) was born in 1916. [1]
Beck's 1967 memoir, Pimp: The Story of My Life sold very well, mainly among Black audiences. By 1973, it had been reprinted 19 times and had sold nearly 2 million copies. Pimp was eventually translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and Greek. He also wrote novels such as Trick Baby.
The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a foal on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many ...
Hammett was born near Great Mills on the "Hopewell and Aim" farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, [8] to Richard Thomas Hammett and his wife Anne Bond Dashiell. His mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was de Chiel.
Malcolm X’s life story has been adapted into TV series, movies and even an opera, but the best place to start is probably with “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” ... Washington wrote many ...
Harris became the first black male cheerleader as well as the first black yearbook editor while attending the University of Arkansas. After graduation, he became a computer salesman with IBM, AT&T, and Hewlett-Packard for 13 years living in Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. In 1990, Harris attempted suicide during a dark phase of ...
Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation. Griffin was a native of Mansfield, Texas, who had his skin temporarily