8 rows · · William Wells Brown: An African American Life: Author: Ezra Greenspan: Edition: illustrated: Author: Ezra Greenspan. · A scholar fills in the gaps in the life of a former slave who became one of the most famous African-Americans of the www.doorway.rupan (English/Southern Methodist Univ.; editor:William Wells Brown: A Reader, , etc.) mined the archives to discover how William Wells Brown (a name adopted long after his birth) rose from a nondescript slave probably born in to becomea man of ISBN "Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone's, "rented" out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man known as "Sandy" reinvented himself as "William Wells" Brown after escaping to freedom. He lifted himself out of illiteracy and soon became an innovative, widely admired.
In "William Wells Brown: An African American Life," Ezra Greenspan, a professor of English at Southern Methodist University and the editor of "William Wells Brown: A Reader," provides an. William Wells Brown: A Reader; George Palmer Putnam; Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" Walt Whitman and the American Reader; William Wells Brown: An African American Life (NY: W. W. Norton, ) Editor: William Wells Brown: Clotel and Other Works (NY: Library of America, ) Upcoming Readings and Interviews. Oct. 7: Flyleaf Books (Chapel Hill. Ezra Greenspan talked about his book, [William Wells Brown: An African American Life], about the life of William Wells Brown, a former slave who penned some of the earliest African American works.
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography' A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century., William Wells Brown, An African American Life, Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown: An African American Life. By Ezra Greenspan. (New York: W. W. Norton, Pp. Cloth, $) Perhaps William Wells Brown’s time has finally come. The man who published his own account of slavery two years after the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass appeared in remained in his formidable. William Wells Brown: An African American Life: Author: Ezra Greenspan: Edition: illustrated.
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