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Colter, Cyrus was born on January 8, 1910 in Noblesville, Indiana, United States. Son of James Alexander and Ethel Marietta (Bassett) Colter.
(A collection of 18 short stories focusing on the lives of...)
A collection of 18 short stories focusing on the lives of black people in Chicago during the 1960s. With one exception, the stories examine the experience of America's blacks and centres on life in the slums and of lives spent making ends meet between security cheques.
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( Set in a Chicago seething with physical and psychologic...)
Set in a Chicago seething with physical and psychological violence, Cyrus Colter's The Hippodrome is an examination of power and exploitation and their entanglement with sexuality. Yeager has murdered his wife and her white lover. Fleeing the police, he is both offered refuge and held captive in the Hippodrome, a ghetto house where a troupe of blacks stage sexual theater for white audiences. Colter's subtle treatment of the subject matter, and his careful delineation of his character's motives, make The Hippodrome a classic of modern fiction.
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( Set mostly on Chicago's South Side, these eighteen stor...)
Set mostly on Chicago's South Side, these eighteen stories describe ordinary people whose lives are transformed by small acts of chance or will. From depictions of the ordered urban enclaves of the black middle class to the dank and dirty tenements of the lonely city's poor, Colter's sharp, spare prose etches perceptive portraits of people who endure and overcome the most severe threats to their spirits.
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( Cyrus Colter's fourth novel is a cautionary tale of rev...)
Cyrus Colter's fourth novel is a cautionary tale of revolutionary dreams, bitter realities, and the persistence of both hope and falsehood. No reader will forget the tale Meshach Barry tells of the rebellion led by Rollo Ezekiel Lee--known as "Cager"--on the campus of a small black college.
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( Cyrus Colter's third and most ambitious novel follows t...)
Cyrus Colter's third and most ambitious novel follows the fortunes of John Calvin Knight--the fiery, driven leader of the Black Peoples Congress, a man whose life and career have developed as much in reaction to his father and the views of an earlier generation as to the awakening civil rights movements of his own era. But no matter how far John Calvin tries to separate himself from his father, it is his father's wisdom about family history--and the history of all African-Americans--that first inflames and ultimately engrosses the son, determining his life and its possible successes or failures.
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Colter, Cyrus was born on January 8, 1910 in Noblesville, Indiana, United States. Son of James Alexander and Ethel Marietta (Bassett) Colter.
Juris Doctor, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago Kent College Law, 1940. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Illinois, 1977. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Roosevelt University, 1992.
Practiced law in, Chicago, since 1946; agent, Internal Revenue Service, 1940-1942; member, Illinois Commerce Commission, 1950-1973; Chester D. Tripp professor humanities, Northwestern University, 1973-1978; professor emeritus, Northwestern University, since 1978. Consultant American Telephone & Telegraph Company, since 1974.
( Cyrus Colter's third and most ambitious novel follows t...)
( Set in a Chicago seething with physical and psychologic...)
( Set mostly on Chicago's South Side, these eighteen stor...)
( Cyrus Colter's fourth novel is a cautionary tale of rev...)
(A collection of 18 short stories focusing on the lives of...)
(The first novel from the author of the short fiction coll...)
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Board directors Station Window To The World-television, Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago History Society, Chicago Reporter, Great Books Foundation. Board directors, treasurer Messenger Foundation, Chicago Served to captain Field Artillery United States Army, 1942-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Association of University Professors, Arts Club Chicago Clubs: Commercial (Chicago).
Wayfarers, Cliff Dwellers.
Married Imogene Mackay, January 1, 1943.