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Major, Charles
Major, Charles (1936– ),born in Atlanta, received degrees from SUNY at Albany and the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, has taught English at the University of Colorado since 1977. His very full literary career began with Love Poems of a Black Man (1965), poetry continued in Human Juices (1966); Swallow the Lake (1970), about the difficult lives of black people in a city; Private Line (1971); The Syncopated Cakewalk (1974); and Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuñi (1988). Equally extensive is his body of fiction beginning with All‐Night Visitors (1969), a rambling tale concerning the sexual and other experiences of a young black man; No (1973), about the maturing of a young black boy; Reflex and Bone Structure (1975), relating the murder of a black actress; Emergency Exit (1979), treating the falling apart of two black lovers; My Amputations (1986), about a black man trying to become an author; Such Was the Season (1987), comically displaying the lives of a black family in Atlanta; and Painted Turtle (1988), about a Native American folksinger. He has also collected stories in Fun and Games (1988) and published essays in The Dark and Feeling: Black American Writers and Their Work (1974).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Major, Charles." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Major, Charles." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-MajorCharles1.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Major, Charles." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-MajorCharles1.html |
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Major, Charles
Major, Charles (1856–1913),Indiana author, whose most popular work was the historical romance When Knighthood Was in Flower (1898), in which the master of the dance, Sir Edwin Caskoden, tells of the love of Queen Mary and Charles Brandon, with a romantic background of 16th‐century England. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1902) is another romance of this period. Both stories were successfully dramatized and, since their first vogue, have passed into the field of juvenile literature. Major wrote several other historical novels and attempted local‐color fiction.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Major, Charles." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Major, Charles." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-MajorCharles.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Major, Charles." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-MajorCharles.html |
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