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by Wesley Brown, Erika Vital-Lazare (Editor)

100 pages, Hardcover

Published May 5, 2026

About the author

Novelist, playwright, and teacher Wesley Brown was born and raised in Harlem, NYC. His work includes three acclaimed novels (Tragic Magic, Darktown Strutters, and Push Comes to Shove) and three produced plays (Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, and A Prophet Among Them).

Brown's work often reflects his political involvement. In 1965, Brown worked with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party on voting registration. In 1968, he became a member of the Black Panther Party in Rochester, New York. In 1972, he was sentenced to three years in prison for refusing induction into the armed services and spent eighteen months in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.

He is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, where he taught for 27 years. He currently teaches literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock, and lives in Spencertown, New York.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short novel was one I could not put down. Wesley Brown’s novel is an auto-fictional account of Frank Willis, the security guard who discovered the Watergate break in. I won’t spoil this but Frank’s story is wonderfully told.