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Wesley Brown

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New York City, The United States

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male

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http://www.concordfreepress.com

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Novelist, playwright, and teacher Wesley Brown was born and raised in Harlem, NYC. His work includes three acclaimed novels (Tragic Magic, Darktown Strutters, and Push Comes to Shove) and three produced plays (Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, and A Prophet Among Them).

Brown's work often reflects his political involvement. In 1965, Brown worked with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party on voting registration. In 1968, he became a member of the Black Panther Party in Rochester, New York. In 1972, he was sentenced to three years in prison for refusing induction into the armed services and spent eighteen months in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.

He is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, where he taught for 27 years. He...more

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Books by Wesley Brown

Average rating: 3.13 · 45 ratings · 4 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Darktown Strutters by Wesley Brown, W.T. Lhamon Jr. 3.05 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Tragic Magic: A Novel 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Push Comes to Shove 2.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Darktown Strutters 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land by Wesley Brown, Amy Ling 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991	My rating:
	Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land by Wesley Brown (Editor), Amy Ling 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	The Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Early Intervention Regulation: Annotation And Analysis Of Part H 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: