Blyden Jackson (novelist)
Blyden Jackson | |
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| Born | June 2, 1936 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | April 29, 2012 (aged 74–75) Bayonne, New Jersey, United States |
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| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
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Blyden Brown Jackson Jr. (June 2, 1936 - April 29, 2012) was an American , Marine, Author, and Emergency Medical Technician.[1] He is best known for his novels Operation Burning Candle and Totem. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut and died in Bayonne, New Jersey.[1] During his life he served in the US Marines, where his experiences helped shaped the writing of Operation Burning Candle.[2] He served as the chairman of the New Haven, Connecticut chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the early-to-mid-1960s. He later founded and became the chairman of East River CORE, located on the east side of 125th street in Harlem, in New York City.[3] He dated Eleanor Holmes Norton in the 1960s.[4] After writing Operation Burning Candle and Totem he was interested in writing a novel about Bellevue Hospital.[2]
Education[]
Jackson took fiction writing classes at New York University where he was taught by Sidney Offit.[2]
Novels[]
- 1973: Operation Burning Candle
- 1975: Totem
Media appearances[]
- 1974-05-04. "Novelist Blyden Jackson, an SCE writing student, discusses his 1973 novel Operation Burning Candle with host Walter James Miller".[5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/obituary.aspx?n=blyden-brown-jackson&pid=157434793/
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Blyden Jackson | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News". WNYC.
- ^ "Jackson, Blyden Brown, June 2, 1936- April 29, 2012". crdl.usg.edu.
- ^ Lester, Joan Steinau; Norton, Eleanor Holmes (January 6, 2004). Fire in My Soul. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743407885 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Blyden Jackson". The NYPR Archive Collections.
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