Ronald Hobbs Literary Agency records 1964- 1992.
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Hobbs, Ronald
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Harrison, Paul Carter, 1936-....
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Paul Carter Harrison, African American playwright, was born on March 1, 1936 in New York City, New York to Thelma Inez and Paul Randolph Harrison. In 1957, Harrison earned a B.A. in psychology from Indiana University, and after moving back to New York, earned a M.A. in psychology and phenomenology from the New School for Social Research in 1962. After spending several years in Europe, Harrison was hired as an assistant professor in theater arts at Howard University in 1968. He went on to teach t...
Ronald Hobbs Literary Agency.
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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Hartford Ronald Hobbs was the preeminent African American literary agent of the 1960s and 1970s, negotiating over 300 fiction and non-fiction books (including several by Larry Neal, H. Rap Brown, Paul Carter Harrison, James Haskins, and Julius Lester). In 1967, Hobbs became the literary agent to poet, novelist, playwright and Black Arts Movement founder LeRoi Jones who, in 1968, would adopt the Muslim name Imamu Amiri Baraka after aligning himself with Robert Karenga and the po...
Lester, Julius
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