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NOIR FAN

I loved watching detective stories on TV growing up. The movies were plentiful in the theaters. When I read the books below, I was like a kid in a candy store.

There are noir stories set in other cities here and around the world.  I have read five of these books and plan on reading more of them.

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NEVER ALONE

 

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WORDS OF WISDOM

 

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OBSCURE POET

FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS   (1905-1987)

Born in Arkansas City, KS.

Journalist, poet

Pen name- Frank Boganey

Part of Social Realism movement

*Outspoken about social and political issues

Played role in the South Side Writers Group in Chicago

Among the writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance

Moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in late 1940s. Became involved  in labor issues

1st Long Poem:  Chicago Conga: Sonata for an Orchestra

1st Book of Poems: Black Man's Poems (1935)

17th Street: Poems (1948)

Died in 1987 in Hawaii

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NOTEBOOK

 

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QUOTE

 

Some of y best writing has been during dark and troubling times.