Clarence Cooper Jr

Clarence Cooper Jr

Infobox Person
name= Clarence Cooper Jr


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birth_date= 1934
birth_place= Detroit
dead=dead
death_date= 1978
death_place= New York
occupation= American Author
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Clarence L. Cooper Jr (1934 – 1978) was an American Author.

Biography

Clarence Cooper Jr wrote seven novels, which described life in Black America. His books are detective mysteries, in an underworld of drugs and violence. He worked as an editor for The Chicago Messenger circa 1955. He was said to have started taking heroin at this time.

Cooper became alienated from those around him, potentially driven by the hostile response to his fiction.

Death

He died penniless, strung out and alone in the 23rd street YMCA New York City in 1978.

Published works

* The Syndicate.
* The Scene (1960), described by the Library of Congress as autobiographical. ISBN 0-393-31463-4.
* Weed (1963).
* The Farm (1968). ISBN 0-393-31785-4.
* Black, a collection of 3 short novels: The Dark Messenger, Yet Princes Follow, Not We Many. ISBN 0-393-31541-X.

References

* [http://www.canongate.net/ClarenceCooperJnr Cannongate]
* [http://www.booksense.com/readup/excerpts/scene.jsp Booksense]

External links

* [http://www.streetfiction.org/ Streetfiction.org | Urban Books Reviews and Author Interviews]


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