Book & podcast collection

William Wells Brown: An African American Life

byEzra Greenspan

William Wells Brown is Ezra Greenspan's biographical portrait of an African American Life. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of biography & autobiography. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. Together, these elements make William Wells Brown an accessible guide to the subject and the questions it continues to raise. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

2014

Format

Print edition

Pages

614

ISBN

9780393240900