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Sample of authors
Mosley, Walter
American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish background and his father was Afro-American. Walter Mosley had at first an irregular school life, but his mother encouraged him to read, even classic literature. In 1964, the family moved to Westside in Los Angeles, and in 1970 he matriculated from Alexander Hamilton High...
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Whitehead, Colson
American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his reckoning. His family later moved to other living quarters in Manhattan. His parents were middle class and well-to-do. Whitehead had three siblings. The children attended private schools, but his father still considered it mandatory to teach him the art of survival in such a racist...
