Wesley Brown lectures at the University of Connecticut
Dates
- 1987 October 27
Creator
- Brown, Wesley (Person)
Summary
Novelist and playwright Wesley Brown lectured at the University of Connecticut on October 27, 1987 (2015-0002/RR112).
Biographical / Historical
Novelist and playwright Wesley Brown was born in 1945 in New York City. He graduated from State University of New York, Oswego and The City College of the City University of New York. He has taught at Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, Rutgers University from 1979-2005, and has been teaching at Bard College since 2007. His plays and novels include Tragic Magic, Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, Darktown Strutters, A Prophet Among Them, Push Comes to Shove, Dark Meat and a Funny Mind and Dance of the Infidels. Brown has been an editor for Imagining America, Visions of America, and The Teachers and Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Brown_(writer)]
Extent
1 Reels (Magnetic tape audio recordings) : RR 112 1 reel, 1:19:38; tape speed 3¾ IPS; track position ½-Track Mono; Substrate: Polyester.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original audio recordings reside in the University of Connecticut, Black Experience in the Arts Collection, Archives & Special Collections, UConn Library.
- African American authors Subject Source: Fast
- African American educators Subject Source: Fast
- African Americans Subject Source: Fast
- African Americans in popular culture Subject Source: Fast
- Black Experience in the Arts Course (University of Connecticut) -- Sound recordings Subject Source: Local sources
Repository Details
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library Repository
University of Connecticut Library
405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205
Storrs Connecticut 06269-1205 USA US
860-486-2524
archives@uconn.edu
