Books by Sterling Brown

Southern Road / The Negro Caravan / The Collected Poems of Sterling Brown  /

The Negro in American Fiction; Negro Poetry and Drama  / Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems

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Books about Sterling Brown

Joanne,Gabbin. Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition (1994)

John Edgar Tidwell, Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South (2007)

Charles Rowell. Callaloo's Sterling A. Brown: Special Issue (1998)

Mark A. Sanders. Afro-Modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling Brown (1999)

Mark A. Sanders. A Son's Return: Selected Essays of Sterling Brown (1996)

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 Letter 18

WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION,

Federal Writers' Project, 1500

Eye Street, NW, Room #40 

October 2, 1937

Dear Mr. Christian:

I received your letter and am glad to know that you will work with us on the project.  

Enclosed is a prospectus of the book, 'The Portrait of the Negro as America," which we have under way.

We should like to know if you have available information on any of the following list of subjects:

1. Tribal origins--slaves in Louisiana.

2. Longshoremen and typical work.

3. Convent Sisters.

4. Colored actress--Cecilly, New Orleans Theatre, 1837.

5. Folk songs--street cries

6. Mardi Gras picture

7. Cases of injustice from earliest time to present.

8. Catholic schools (excluding Xavier)

9. Battle of New Orleans

10. Confederate Regiment of Creoles.

11. Bras Coupe' (character in Cable's GRANDISSIMES, supposed to be a historical figure.)

12. Marie Laveau

Please let me know as soon as possible, how much of this  material you have on hand and how much of it you will be able to get. We want you to send us striking biographical facts and incidents supported by authentic references. From these we will do sketches for the book. 

Very truly yours, 

Sterling A. Brown,

Editor on Negro Affairs, Federal Writers' Project

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posted 29 June 2008