Albert Murray (1916–2013)
Auteur van Stomping the Blues
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Albert Murray was born in Nokomis, Alabama, in 1916. He was educated at Tuskegee Institute, where he later taught literature & directed the college theater. He is the author of many works of fiction & nonfiction, including "The Seven League Boots", "The Blue Devils of Nada" & "The Spyglass Tree". toon meer He lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) Albert Murray was born in 1916 and grew up in Magazine Point, Alabama. He received a bachelor's degree from the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1939. During World War II, he served in the Air Force and received a master's degree from New York University after returning to the U.S. He was a novelist and critic who believed that blues and jazz were not primitive sounds, but sophisticated art. He wrote a series of autobiographical novels, a nonfiction narrative entitled South to a Very Old Place, an acclaimed history of music entitled Stomping the Blues, and several books of criticism including The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement. In 2000, the Modern Library released Trading Twelves, a collection of letters between Murray and fellow author Ralph Ellison. He died on August 18, 2013 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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The Omni-americans: Black Experience And American Culture (Da Capo Press Paperback) (1970) 148 exemplaren
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues /… (2016) 107 exemplaren
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems (LOA #304): Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots /… (2018) 65 exemplaren
The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement (1996) 49 exemplaren
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- Murray, Albert Lee (birth name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1916-05-12
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2013-08-18
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- USA
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- Nokomis, Alabama, USA
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- Harlem, New York, USA
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- Tuskegee Institute (BS|1939)
New York University (MA|1948)
University of Michigan
Northwestern University
University of Paris - Beroepen
- public intellectual
essayist
literary critic
novelist - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1997)
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