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Cooper, Clarence L

LC control no.n 84054940
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3553.O5799
Personal name headingCooper, Clarence L.
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Birth date1934
Death date1978
Field of activityNovelists
Found inHis The dark messenger, 1962: t.p. (Clarence L. Cooper Jr.)
His The farm, 1996: CIP t.p. (Clarence L. Cooper, Jr.) data sheet (Cooper, Clarence Levi, Jr.; b. 1934)
His Black! 1997: CIP t.p. (Clarence Cooper, Jr.) galley (d. 1978)
An African-American author who spent much of his life in jail, whose fiction employed a hard-edged, ultra-hip style of realism to write about drug pushers and users, pimps, prostitutes, narcotics detectives, reporters, and Black Muslims
Associated languageeng