About Robert Deane Pharr
Lived 1916 – 1989 (aged 72–73). Robert Deane Pharr was an American novelist.
Robert Deane Pharr (1916–1989 or 1992 ) was an African-American novelist.
Pharr attended Saint Paul's Normal and Industrial School, Lincoln University, Virginia Union University and Fisk University, He described his goal when he started writing as to be a "black Sinclair Lewis". A draft of his novel Giveadamn Brown and related correspondence were given to the Archives and Special Collections Department, L. Douglas Wilder Library, at Virginia Union University.
Works
The Book of Numbers (1969) S.R.O. (1971) The Welfare Bitch (1973) The Soul Murder Case (1975) Giveadamn Brown (1978)
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Who was Robert Deane Pharr?
African-American novelist
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Robert Deane Pharr was born in 1916 in Richmond.
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Robert Deane Pharr died in 1989.
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Robert Deane Pharr was a novelist.
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Robert Deane Pharr was American.
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