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Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a professor at Howard University for most of his career.
Sterling Allen Brown devoted his life to the development of an authentic black folk literature. A poet, critic, and teacher at Howard University for 40 years, Brown was one of the first people to identify folklore as a vital component of the black aesthetic and to recognize its validity as a form…
May 18, 2018 · Though he has often been called a writer of the Harlem Renaissance —a period of cultural development among U.S. blacks, centered in New York City's Harlem in the 1920s—poet and literary critic Sterling Brown (1901-1989) rose to prominence during the early 1930s outside of New York 's literary and intellectual circles.
Sterling A. Brown was a poet, folklorist, and literary critic who played a pivotal role in the development of African American literature. His work gave voice to the experiences and struggles of Black people in America, challenging racial stereotypes and celebrating the richness of Black culture.
Sep 29, 2007 · Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) Born on the campus of Howard University on May 1, 1901, Sterling Allen Brown was the last of six children and the only boy born to the Rev. Sterling Nelson, a former slave and prominent professor in the Howard Divinity School, and Adelaide (Allen) Brown.
Introduction. Sterling Allen Brown 1901-1989. American poet, folklorist, editor, critic, and essayist. The following entry provides information on Brown's life and works from 1934 through 1999. An ...
Sterling Brown (born May 1, 1901, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Jan. 13, 1989, Takoma Park, Md.) was an influential African-American teacher, literary critic, and poet whose poetry was rooted in folklore sources and black dialect.
Sterling Allen Brown was a renowned poet who documented and championed African American traditional culture in his writings. As Editor of the Negro Affairs for the Federal Writer’s Project (FWP), he set the standards of how Black culture should be presented in realistic ways in FWP publications.
Sterling A. Brown. 1901 –. 1989. Read poems by this poet. Sterling Allen Brown was born in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 1901. He was educated at Dunbar High School and received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Though he is one of the lesser-known heroes of the Harlem Renaissance, Sterling Brown was one of the period’s most important ethnographers and one of few scholars in his time who treated Negro spirituals and other forms of Black music as valid art forms.
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