Sterling Allen Brown (May 1st 1901 - January 13rd 1989) was a professor, writer and critical literary Afro-American, who was interested much in the black culture of the South of the United States. Wire of a professor of the University Howard with Washington DC, it made part of its studies to the Université Harvard. He married Daisy Turnbull in 1927. He taught English at the Howard university during forty years. He wrote several works on the literature and the folklore of the Afro-Americans. In 1933, it published its first collection of poems, heading Southern Road . Its poetry influenced the black-American culture, in particular in the music. Although it passed most of its life to Brookland, a district of Washington, the specialists attach it to the movement of the Renaissance of Harlem.

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