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Sterling Allen Brown was a renowned poet who documented and championed African American traditional culture in his writings. As Editor of the Negro Affairs for the Federal Writer’s Project (FWP), he set the standards of how Black culture should be presented in realistic ways in FWP publications. Born on the campus of Howard University, he ...
Sterling Allen Brown, né le 1 er mai 1901 à Washington (district de Columbia), mort le 13 janvier 1989 à Takoma Park dans l'État du Maryland est un poète, essayiste, critique littéraire, anthologiste et professeur afro-américain dont les recherches ont porté notamment sur la culture populaire afro-américaine du Sud des États-Unis et sur la représentation des Noirs dans la ...
Sterling Allen Brown. 1901-1989. Writer, folklorist, educator. Though he has often been called a writer of the Harlem Renaissance—a period of cultural development among U.S. blacks, centered in New York City's Harlem in the 1920s—poet and literary critic Sterling Brown rose to prominence during the early 1930s outside of New York's literary and intellectual circles.
Sterling Allen Brown devoted his life to the development of an authentic black folk literature. A poet, critic, and teacher at Howard University for 40 years, Brown was one of the first people to identify folklore as a vital component of the black aesthetic and to recognize...
Bio: Sterling Allen Brown was a black professor, folklorist, poet and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a full professor at Howard University for most of his career.
1 de may. de 2017 · Sterling Allen Brown was born in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 1901. He was born on Howard University’s campus, as the sixth child, and only son of schoolteacher Adelaide Allen and her husband, distinguished theologian and divinity school professor Sterling Nelson Brown. Brown graduated with honors from the prestigious Dunbar High School in 1918.
18 de may. de 2018 · Sterling Brown. Though he has often been called a writer of the Harlem Renaissance—a period of cultural development among U.S. blacks, centered in New York City's Harlem in the 1920s—poet and literary critic Sterling Brown (1901-1989) rose to prominence during the early 1930s outside of New York's literary and intellectual circles. Other black writers and poets of the period sought ...
