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<p>During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the attention of a publisher, who encouraged him to write his autobiography. The result, Manchild in the Promised Land, traces Claude Brown's own transformation from a hardened, streetwise young criminal to a successful, self-made man.<P>This autobiographical novel, in print for more than thirty years, has been widely praised for its portrayal of the "lost" generation of African-Americans whose parents left the sharecropping lifestyle of the South for the crowded inner cities of the North.</p><h3>Sacred Fire</h3><p><i>Manchild in the Promised Land</i> is the story of the first generation of blacks who had left the South in search of a northern "promised land" of equality, abundance, and prosperity but found instead a vastly overcrowded and violent urban ghetto&#8212;a generation that went "from the fire into the frying pan."<p> "There was a tremendous difference in the way life was lived up North. There were too many people full of hate and bitterness crowded into a dirty, stinky, uncared-for, closet-sized section of a great city. The

Who reads Manchild in the Promised Land: Scribner?

Author

Claude Brown; Claude Brown

Publisher

Simon & Schuster;Touchstone Book

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780025173255

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.34 / 5 (6,338 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14