Cecil Brown (writer) facts for kids

Cecil Brown (born July 3, 1943) is an African-American writer and educator. He is a published novelist, short story writer, script writer, and college educator. His noted works include The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass ... (1969) and work on the 1977 Richard Pryor film Which Way Is Up? as a screenwriter.

Biography

Born in rural Bolton, North Carolina, Brown attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University of Greensboro, North Carolina, where he earned his B.A. in English in 1966. He later attended Columbia University, and earned his M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1967. Brown while residing in Berkeley, California (to which he returned in the late 1980s and still lives and works), earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies, Folklore and Narrative in 1993. He is a professor at UC Berkeley.

Works

• Pryor Lives (1969)
• Days without Weather (1983)
• Coming Up Down Home (1993)
• I, Stagolee (1993)
• Stagolee Shot Billy (2003), ISBN: 978-0-674-01626-2
• Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department? (2007), ISBN: 978-1-556-43573-7
• Journey's End (2007), ISBN: 978-1-417-99328-4

Awards

• Columbia University English Dept., Professor John Angus Burrell Memorial Prize, 1966
• Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for Days Without Weather, 1984
• Berlin Literary Fellowship, 1985; Besonders Wertvoll Film Preises, 1986
• UC Berkeley, Mentor Fellowship, 1992