Brent Staples
Born: Chester, Pennsylvania
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Brent Staples has a doctorate in psychology from the University Of Chicago. He has been a Adjunct Professor of Psychology at colleges in both Pennsylvania and Chicago, 1977-81. He was a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, 1982-83. Biography: Brent Staple is currently an editorial writer, specializing in politics and culture, for the New York Times.
Awards:
- Danforth Fellowship for graduate study at University of Chicago, and Anisfield Wolff Book Award for , Parallel Time, Growing up in Black and White.
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Parallel time : ISBN: 1524747483 OCLC: 623126509 Pantheon Books, New York : ©1994. Parallel Time is an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites. The oldest son among nine children, Brent grew up in a small industrial town near Philadelphia. First a. |