Individual Author Record
General InformationName: Brent StaplesPen Name: None Genre: Audience: Adult; Born: Chester, Pennsylvania-- Brent Staples on WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=brent+staples |
Illinois Connection
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.Biographical and Professional Information
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.Speaking Engagements
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Parallel time : ISBN: 1524747483. OCLC Number: 623126509 Pantheon Books,. . 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. |