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Cecil Brown (born 3 July 1943) is an African-American author and academic. He is best known for his debut novel The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger. According to literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Brown’s first novel, is “a classic of the black student movement” that has “earned a permanent place in the canons of both the black arts movement and American literature in general.”

Biography
Brown was born in Bolton, North Carolina.

Novels

 * The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (1969)
 * Days Without Weather (1983)
 * I, Stagolee (2006)

Memoir

 * Coming Up Down Home: A Memoir of a Southern Childhood (1993)

Poetry

 * Journey's End (2005)

Scholarly Works

 * Stagolee Shot Billy (2003)
 * Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?: The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities (2007)