Julius Lester (1939–2018)
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Julius Bernard Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 27, 1939. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Fisk University in 1960. He moved to New York to become a folk singer. He performed on the coffeehouse circuit as a singer and guitarist. He released two albums entitled Julius vis mere Lester in 1965 and Departures in 1967. His first published book, The Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly written with Pete Seeger, was published in 1965. In the 1960s, Lester was closely involved as a writer and photographer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He traveled to the South to document the civil rights movement and to North Vietnam to photograph the effects of American bombardment. He also hosted radio and television talk shows in New York City. He wrote more than four dozen nonfiction and fiction books for adults and children. His books for adults included Look Out, Whitey!: Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama, Revolutionary Notes, All Is Well, Lovesong: Becoming a Jew, and The Autobiography of God. His children's books included To Be a Slave, Sam and the Tigers, and Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, which won the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King Award in 2006. He also wrote reviews and essays for numerous publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Dissent, The New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. After teaching for two years at the New School for Social Research in New York, Lester joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1971. He originally taught in the Afro-American studies department, but transferred to the Judaic and Near Eastern studies department when Lester criticized the novelist James Baldwin for what he felt were anti-Semitic remarks. He died from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on January 18, 2018 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Bidragyder — 316 eksemplarer
Join In: Multiethnic Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (1943) — Bidragyder — 77 eksemplarer
The Call of the Wild: and related readings (Literature Connections) (1997) — Bidragyder — 61 eksemplarer
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- Lester, Julius Bernard
- Fødselsdato
- 1939-01-27
- Dødsdag
- 2018-01-18
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- St Louis, Missouri, USA
- Dødssted
- Palmer, Massachusetts, USA
- Dødsårsag
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Bopæl
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
New York, New York, USA
Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Fisk University (BA 1960)
- Erhverv
- photographer
musician
political activist
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author
lay religious leader (Jewish) - Organisationer
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Afro-American Studies Department
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Department
Bethel El Synaogue, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA (lay religious leader)
New York Times Book Review (contributor)
Village Voice (contributor) (vis alle 7)
Dissent (contributor) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Coretta Scott King Awards
Newberry Honor Medal
National Book Award Finalist
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Caldecott Honor Medal
National Professor of the Year Silver Medal Award, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (1985) (vis alle 7)
National Jewish Book Award finalist
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