Clarence Lee Major

Background

Major, Clarence Lee was born on December 31, 1936 in Atlanta. Son of Clarence and Inez (Huff) Major.

Education

Union Graduate School, Yellow Springs and Cincinnati, O., University of the State of New York, Albany.

Career

Professor, U. Colorado, Boulder, 1977-1989; professor, University of California, Davis, since 1989.

Achievements

• Clarence Lee Major has been listed as a notable writer, painter, poet, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Waiting for Sweet Betty

    ( "I find myself writing poems about things I can’t paint...)

  • Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar

    ( A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year ...)

  • Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism

    ( Bringing together critical essays, articles, and review...)

  • All-Night Visitors (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)

    (First published in 1969 in severely abridged form, Claren...)

  • Myself Painting: Poems

    (In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to recreate for r...)

  • The Cotton Club

    (His fourth book of poetry which attempt to preserve and p...)

  • Emergency Exit

    (This, Clarance Major's fourth novel, is about people in a...)

  • All-Night Visitors (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)

    (A first-person narrative restored to full text shares the...)

  • The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry

    (The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry,...)

  • Surfaces and Masks

    ( A book-length poem by an African-American author that u...)

  • Such Was The Season

    (novel, black middle-class family in the New South)

  • Inside Diameter: The France Poems

    (poetry by editor of (1969) 'The New Black Poetry')

  • My Amputations

    (This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow. Its prot...)

  • My Amputations

    (Winner of The Western States Book Award)

  • Dirty Bird Blues by Major,Clarence. 1997 Paperback
  • Private Line

    (Number 15 in the Heritage series. Poetry with a Beat infl...)

  • Dictionary of Afro-American Slang. (New World Paperbacks)

    (Book by Major, Clarence)

  • Reflex and Bone Structure

    (Book by Major, Clarence)

  • Emergency Exit by Major, Clarence (1979) Paperback

    (1st Edition)

  • Dictionary of Afro-American Slang

    (127 Pages)

  • Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism by Major, Clarence (2001) Paperback

    (1st)

  • Reflex and Bone Structure by Major, Clarence (1996) Paperback

    (2nd)

  • Configurations: New & Selected Poems, 1958-1998 by Major, Clarence (1998) Paperback

    (1st)

  • All Night Visitors
  • Waiting for Sweet Betty by Major, Clarence (2002) Paperback
  • My Amputations 1st edition by Major, Clarence (2008) Paperback
  • (Myself Painting: Poems) Author: Clarence Major published on (October, 2008)
  • Configurations: New & Selected Poems, 1958-1998
  • (Myself Painting: Poems) Author: Clarence Major published on (October, 2008)
  • All-Night Visitors (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by Major, Clarence (2000) Paperback
  • Swallow the Lake (Wesleyan Poetry Program)
  • Dirty Bird Blues
  • Cotton Club, The

Connections

Married Pamela Ritter, May 8, 1980.

Father:

Clarence Major

Mother:

Inez (Huff) Major

Spouse:

Pamela Ritter