Sentences with phrase «novel about a black man»

In January, he published «The Further Tales of Tempest Landry,» a novel about a black man killed mistakenly by police in Harlem.

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Luckie wrote a novel called DO U, about men at a fictional black college, and now runs a site called Today in Black Twiblack college, and now runs a site called Today in Black TwiBlack Twitter.

Author of the acclaimed picture - book biography Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (2014), Patricia Hruby Powell turns her attention to the true story of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter with her nonfiction novel in verse Loving vs. Virginia, about a white man and a black woman who fell in love and married in a time when this was an illegal act.

There was also a funny story about his affair with Simone de Beauvoir, a sympathetic examination of the baseball players in the Chicago «Black Sox» scandal of 1919, and his perspective on watching his great novel, The Man With the Golden Arm, being turned into a Hollywood melodrama that starred Frank Sinatra.

Two works about books titled The Man (after the novel by Irivng Wallace that first explored the possibility of a Black man becoming President of the US in 1964) and Things Fall Apart (after Chinua Achebe's 1962 novel about tradition versus colonialism) show the chronological evolution of the African image across the spectrum in international book publishiMan (after the novel by Irivng Wallace that first explored the possibility of a Black man becoming President of the US in 1964) and Things Fall Apart (after Chinua Achebe's 1962 novel about tradition versus colonialism) show the chronological evolution of the African image across the spectrum in international book publishiman becoming President of the US in 1964) and Things Fall Apart (after Chinua Achebe's 1962 novel about tradition versus colonialism) show the chronological evolution of the African image across the spectrum in international book publishing.