Quote of the day
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Claude Brown
Born: February 23, 1937
Died: February 2, 2002 (aged 64)
Bio: Claude Brown is the author of Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. He also published Children of Ham.
Known for:
- Manchild in the Promised Land (1965)
- Stonewall Speaks
- Confederate Devil John
- The children of Ham (1976)