Sterling A. Brown

sterling a. brown was born in Washington d.c, in 1901. he was educated at Dunbar high school and received a bachelors degree from Williams college. Brown spent most of his life as an English professor at Howard university, where he taught a wide range of Shakespeare. brown grew up in the the black middle class of Washington, DC, but his interest in the lives of common folk took him from the lecture hall to the barrel house and the barber shop. while being influenced by such poetic masters such as Robert frost and Edgar lee masters.

In 1918 brown earned a scholarship to Williams college, where an essay in 1922, "the comic spirit in Shakespeare and Moliere", and election to phi beta kappa won him a Clark fellowship to Harvard for graduate work. In 1932 his first book, southern road was published. Jazz, the blues, spirituals, and work songs influenced brown's poetry. brown was and is known for his unsentimental and frank portraits of African-American people and their lives and experiences.

If i was telling someone about sterling a. brown and they knew nothing about him the one thing that i would most want them to know would be how he captured the dialect of rural black folk, and event though this was an unpopular style of writing his wonderful talent and ability to reveal humanity won over everything. the most interesting thing about sterling a. brown was that he was inspired by music and by that wrote beautiful poems.

In conclusion i think sterling a. brown was a wonderful writer and would love to read more of his inspiring work.