When writing is take the most basic kind of line, and improvise on it.

After winning an award, he attended a racially integrated high school, where he was a excellent student only for writing. His novels concerned mythology, history, and Chicago. LEON FORREST wa born in Chicago in a January day, 1937. With an introduction from Ralph Ellison, his first novel was published in 1973. Later, in 1973, he joined the creative writing staff of Northwestern University, where he headed their African-American Studies department. His last novel (Divine Days, a novel over 1,100 pages long), modeled on Ulysses (by James Joyce), was considered the War and Peace of African-American literature.

As much as Chicago is a metropolis built of glass and steel, here also you can find a city of books ordered with an eye to their level of artistry and their long-term impact, such as Divine Days, a novel that reigns as city’s epic. Into the novel you can discover the playwright Joubert Antoine Jones. A Rabelaisian cast of characters crowd the pages of this book, an suggestive tapestry of Black-American life and identity. As he had said: “I want to look at the work. I don’t care if its white or black. I don’t agree that if you’re white, you can’t write. I want to see what they can do”.

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