![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Major analyzed news coverage of the 1960s riots. He briefly worked as a research analyst for Simulmatics, under the direction of sociologist Dr. His first novel, All Night Visitors, was published in 1969 and his first collection of poems, Swallow the Lake, the following year. As a teenager, Major was influenced by the monumental Van Gogh Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, February 1 – April 16, 1950.Īfter a stint in the Air Force, Major left the Midwest and moved to New York City in December 1966. In his early twenties he started publishing his own literary magazine, Coercion Review, which featured poets and writers such as Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. As a teenager he started drawing and painting, writing poetry and fiction. Biography Ĭlarence Major was born on December 31, 1936, in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He was awarded the 2016 PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016Ĭlarence Major (born December 31, 1936) is an American poet, painter, and novelist winner of the 2015 "Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts", presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. ![]()
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