Sterling Allen Brown Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Sterling Allen Brown.

  • 3 Biographies
  • 33 Literature Criticisms
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Biographies (3)

2,898 words, approx. 10 pages
Poet, critic, scholar, teacher, folklorist, and consummate yarn-spinner, Sterling Brown has been among the most influential and, until recently, one of the most neglected black American writers of the... Read more
6,681 words, approx. 23 pages
The importance of Sterling A. Brown in Afro-American literature and culture rests on his position as an innovative poet, a folklorist, and a pioneer critic. He was among the first to identify the foun... Read more
4,070 words, approx. 14 pages
Since his retirement in 1969 from Howard University's English department, Sterling Allen Brown has become known among colleagues and associates as "the dean" of black American critics, an epithet firs... Read more