Brown, Cecil, 1943-
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Name (Latin)
Brown, Cecil, 1943-
Date of birth
1943-07-03
Associated country
United States
Occupation
College teachers
Novelists
Screenwriters
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Brown, Cecil; fiction writer, dramatist, screenwriter; born 03 July 1943 in Bolton, North Carolina, United States; BA in Comparative Literature at Columbia University (1966); master's in English and American Literature at the University of Chicago; PhD in African American Literature, Folklore, and Theory of Narrative at the University of California at Berkeley (1993); published criticism, essays, and interviews in journals such as the Negro Digest, Kenyon Review, and Evergreen Review (1968); published first novel, The Lives and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (1969); worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter, among others on the controversial comedy, Which Way Is Up? (1971); screenwriter for Warner Brothers and Universal Studios (1977-1979); wrote the novel, Days Without Weather (1982); published a book of academic rabble-rousing called Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department? (2007); professor at the University of California, Berkeley, among others; honors include, the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1984))
- The life and loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, 1969.
- His The life and loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, 1969.
- LC in OCLC, Nov. 18, 2002(hdg.: Brown, Cecil Morris; thesis (Ph. D.) Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, 1993)