| 词条 | Earl Conrad |
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Earl Conrad (17 December 1912 - 17 January 1986), birth name Cohen, was an American author who penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote was the autobiography of actor Errol Flynn, titled My Wicked, Wicked Ways. Conrad was born to Eli and Minnie Cohen in Auburn, New York, into a Jewish family with nine siblings. He was "reared in the Judaic tradition" but chose to Anglicize his name when he began his career as a professional journalist. He wished to be a writer from a young age, and his early experience included a stint at the Auburn Advertiser-Journal.[1] He worked as a journalist for the newspaper PM in New York City, and other papers. As the Harlem Bureau Chief for The Chicago Defender, an African American title, he investigated lynchings in the south. This work brought him into contact with Haywood Patterson. In 1950, Conrad co-wrote Patterson's memoir, Scottsboro Boy, about his experience as one of the group of nine men accused of rape in Alabama in 1931.[2] Conrad married Anna Alyse Abrams in 1938; the couple had one son, Michael Earl Conrad.[3] The Conrads lived in San Francisco at least during the 1967-1972 period in an apartment near downtown, not far from Union Square. In the early 1980s, they lived in Coronado, California. Some of his papers are in the local history collection of the Cayuga Community College in Auburn. Other papers are in the collection of the university of Oregon. He died on January 17, 1986, of complications from lymphoma.[4] His interests as a writer included biographies of show business personalities, such as his memoir of Errol Flynn and his biography of Dorothy Dandridge; and issues related to African Americans, such as his biographies of Harriet Tubman. He wrote a fantasy novel about an African American nation being carved out of the American South, a country in the shape of Africa. WorksConrad penned these following works under his name, or with collaboration.
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Sernett|first=Milton C.|title=Harriet Tubman : Myth, Memory, and History|year=2007|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham|isbn=978-0822340737|pages=202}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Conrad, Earl}}{{US-historian-stub}}2. ^{{cite news |author= |title=Earl Conrad, 79, the Author of Books on Race Relations |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/21/obituaries/earl-conrad-79-the-author-of-books-on-race-relations.html |newspaper=New York Times |location=New York |publisher=New York Times |date=January 21, 1986 |accessdate=July 23, 2014 }} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Reginald|first=R.|title=Contemporary science fiction authors. 2.|year=1979|publisher=Gale Research Co.|location=Detroit, Mich.|isbn=978-0810310513|pages=861|edition=2.}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Sernett|first=Milton C.|title=Harriet Tubman : Myth, Memory, and History|year=2007|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham|isbn=978-0822340737|pages=224}} 10 : 1912 births|1986 deaths|Male biographers|20th-century American historians|Jewish American historians|Jewish American writers|Writers from San Francisco|20th-century American biographers|20th-century American male writers|American male non-fiction writers |
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