Sterling Brown Biography

Sterling Brown biography

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NAME: Sterling Brown
OCCUPATION: Educator, Literary Critic, Editor, Poet
BIRTH DATE: May 01, 1901
DEATH DATE: January 13, 1989
EDUCATION: Williams College, Harvard University

PLACE OF BIRTH: Washington, D.C.

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African American poet Sterling Brown best known for his realistic writing and use of authentic black dialect and phonetic spelling in his poems.

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African American poet Sterling Brown best known for his realistic writing and use of authentic black dialect and phonetic spelling in his poems. He began his career as a professor, collecting folk songs and stories that eventually turned into his first volume of poetry, Southern Road (1932). Most of his work, including the pioneering study Negro Poetry and Drama, was written by the mid-1940s.