| Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet Contributor(s): Davis, Frank Marshall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299135047 ISBN-13: 9780299135041 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: Frank Marshall Davis was a prominent poet, journalist, jazz critic, and civil rights activist on the Chicago and Atlanta scene from the 1920s through 1940s. He was an intimate of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, and an influential editor at the Chicago Evening Bulletin, the Chicago Whip, the Chicago Star, and the Atlanta World. He renounced his writing career in 1948 and moved to Hawaii, forgotten until the Black Arts Movement rediscovered him in the 1960s. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Literary Criticism | American - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: 818 |
| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6.42" W x 8.88" (1.33 lbs) 408 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Frank Marshall Davis was a prominent poet, journalist, jazz critic, and civil rights activist on the Chicago and Atlanta scene from the 1920s through 1940s. He was an intimate of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright and an influential editor at the Chicago Evening Bulletin, the Chicago Whip, the Chicago Star, and the Atlanta World. He renounced his writing career in 1948 and moved to Hawaii, forgotten until the Black Arts Movement rediscovered him in the 1960s. Because of his early self-exile from the literary limelight, Davis's life and work have been shrouded in mystery. Livin' the Blues offers us a chance to rediscover this talented poet and writer and stands as an important example of black autobiography, similar in form, style, and message to those of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. "Both a social commentary and intellectual exploration into African American life in the twentieth century."-Charles Vincent, Atlanta History |