Sterling Allen Brown - Wikipedia
Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a professor at Howard University for most of his career.
Sterling A. Brown | The Poetry Foundation
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 its validity as a form of artistic expression.
About Sterling A. Brown - Academy of American Poets
Brown is known for his frank, unsentimental portraits of Black people and their experiences, as well as the incorporation of African American folklore and contemporary idiom into his verse. Brown died on January 13, 1989, in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) - Blackpast
Sep 29, 2007 · Sterling Allen Brown grew up on the Howard campus but graduated as the top student from Washington’s renowned Dunbar High School in 1918. His success enabled him to accept the token gesture of an academic scholarship Williams College annually extended to Dunbar’s valedictorian.
Sterling Allen Brown - Encyclopedia.com
May 18, 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 ...
Sterling Brown | African-American, Harlem Renaissance, Poet
Sterling Brown (born May 1, 1901, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Jan. 13, 1989, Takoma Park, Md.) was an influential African-American teacher, literary critic, and poet whose poetry was rooted in folklore sources and black dialect.
Featured Poet | Sterling Brown - African American Poetry
Though he is one of the lesser-known heroes of the Harlem Renaissance, Sterling Brown was one of the period’s most important ethnographers and one of few scholars in his time who treated Negro spirituals and other forms of Black music as valid art forms.
Sterling Allen Brown - Library of Congress
Sterling Allen Brown was born in Washington, D.C., in 1901. He is the author of three poetry collections, including Southern Road (1932), as well as notable critical works and anthologies on black culture and literature.
Brown, Sterling Allen 1901–1989 - Encyclopedia.com
Brown, Sterling Allen 1901–1989. PERSONAL: Born May 1, 1901, in Washington, DC; died of leukemia, January 13, 1989, in Takoma Park, MD; son of Sterling Nelson (a writer and professor of religion at Howard University) and Adelaide Allen Brown; married Daisy Turnbull, September, 1927; children: John L. Dennis.
Sterling Allen Brown - Notable Folklorists of Color
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 …