Robert Deane Pharr

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Robert Deane Pharr (1916–1989[1] or 1992[2]) was an African-American novelist.[3][4]

Pharr attended Saint Paul's Normal and Industrial School, Lincoln University, Virginia Union University and Fisk University,[2] but spent most of his career working as a waiter.[1] He graduated from Virginia Union University in 1939, and did graduate work at Fisk, Columbia University, and New York University.[5] He described his goal when he started writing as to be a "black Sinclair Lewis".[2][3] He is best known for his debut novel The Book of Numbers (1969), about the numbers racket, which was adapted into a 1973 film of the same name.[1][6] A draft of his novel Giveadamn Brown and related correspondence were given to the Archives and Special Collections Department, L. Douglas Wilder Library, at Virginia Union University.[7]

Works[edit]

  • The Book of Numbers (1969)
  • S.R.O. (1971)
  • The Welfare Bitch (1973)[8]
  • The Soul Murder Case (1975)
  • Giveadamn Brown (1978)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "The Book of Numbers". University of Virginia Press. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Roberts, John J. "Robert Deane Pharr (1916–1992)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b O'Brien, John; Singh, Raman K. (1974). "Interview with Robert Deane Pharr". Negro American Literature Forum. 8 (3): 244. doi:10.2307/3041467. JSTOR 3041467.
  4. ^ Epps, Garrett (1976). "To Know the Truth: The Novels of Robert Deane Pharr". Hollins Critic. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Robert Deane Pharr, Novelist, 75". The New York Times. 1992-04-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  6. ^ "Robert Deane Pharr (1916-1992), from The Oxford Companion to African-American Literature". Oxford Reference. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  7. ^ "A Guide to the Pharr, Robert Deane, Papers MS-0002". ead.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  8. ^ This title appears to have been unpublished. See: Greene, Brian. "A Black Sinclair Lewis: The Novels of Robert Deane Pharr." In Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980. Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, editors. Oakland, California: PM Press, 2020. ISBN 9781629635248. page 130.
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