William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (Loa #247): Narrative of W. W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave / Clotel; Or, the President's / American Fugitive

by William Wells Brown

Book Overview

A showcase of the extraordinary career America's first Black novelist and pivotal figure in African American literature

"It is difficult to imagine any one of his contemporaries who contributed as much or as richly to so many genres." --Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159853291X
• ISBN13: 9781598532913
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 912 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher