A Prophet Among Them

The students in the course Baldwin and Friends: Lovers with Questions, Native Sons without Country present a staged reading of A Prophet Among Them, a play by Professor Wesley Brown, as a tribute to James Baldwin. Brown's writes, "In my play, A PROPHET AMONG THEM, I have tried to honor James Baldwin, the writer who in the second half of the 20th Century, was an indispensable voice, insisting that as a nation we confront the unfinished business of democracy by raising the questions about ourselves that were and continue to be the most painful to ask." Wesley Brown is the author of three published novels, Tragic Magic, Darktown Strutters, Push Comes to SHOVE and Dance of the Infidels, a forthcoming short story collection; four produced plays, Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, A Prophet Among Them, and Dark Meat on a Funny Mind. He co-edited the multicultural anthologies, ‘Imagining America’ (fiction), ‘Visions of America’ (non-fiction), edited the Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass and wrote the narration for a segment of the PBS documentary, W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in four Voices. He is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, currently teaches literature and creative writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock and lives in Spencertown, New York.

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