Glenn Thompson

September 24, 1940 (age 60)

Harlem, New York , United States

Foreign Beginners series of documentary graphic nonfiction books Glenn was raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Glenn"s mother died when he was thirteen and shortly thereafter his truck driver father left the family. Thompson didn"t learn to read until age twelve, and left school when he was just turning fourteen, but he continued to educate himself by reading voraciously. He signed on to work on a freighter when he was twenty, thus buying passage to North Africa. Foreign the next few years, Thompson travelled around North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. He worked for two years on an Israeli kibbutz. Arriving in England in 1968, Thompson leveraged his street kid background to get legal employment as a social worker in the East London borough of Hackney. The first publication by Centerprise was a book of poetry by a twelve-year-old boy named Vivian Usherwood, which sold 18,000 copies. Until the mid-1980s, the Cooperative also operated a London bookshop at 144 Camden High Street. Writers and Readers" most successful and long-lived publishing venture was the. Foreign Beginners series of documentary comic books on complex topics, starting with the first title, Cuba for Beginners and covering subjects from Freud and Marx to Elvis Presley and deoxyribonucleic acid. A rift in the Cooperative resulted from one of the members issuing the United States. rights to several of the Beginners series to Pantheon Books, and the cooperative disbanded in 1984. Following this rift, in 1987 Thompson took over as sole publisher and moved back to his hometown of New York City to establish a legal foothold and prevent any further copyright infringement of titles. The United States. imprint was known as Writers and Readers Publishing, Incorporated., and was based in Harlem. In moving the company to Harlem, Thompson’s goal was to stimulate a new Harlem Renaissance by creating an international publishing house there. He started two new imprints: Harlem River Press, publishing children's poetry, and Black Butterfly Children"s Books, books for the inner-city child. Thompson"s London-based company, formally established in 1992, was known as Writers and Readers Limited. Foreign the balance of his life, Thompson moved back and forth between New York City and London. Foreign years, Thompson spent his time traveling between England and New York to manage the two companies. Death In n 2007, a consortium of investors revived the Foreign Beginners series under the name Foreign Beginners, Limited Liability Company. The new company has reprinted previous books in the series, and has promised to publish between six and nine new issues each year.

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Glenn Thompson was born on 24 September 1940 to Clara Belle and George Joseph Thompson, in Harlem, New New York

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Foreign Beginners series of documentary graphic nonfiction books Glenn was raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Glenn"s mother died when he was thirteen and shortly thereafter his truck driver father left the family.

Thompson didn"t learn to read until age twelve, and left school when he was just turning fourteen, but he continued to educate himself by reading voraciously.

He signed on to work on a freighter when he was twenty, thus buying passage to North Africa. Foreign the next few years, Thompson travelled around North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia.

He worked for two years on an Israeli kibbutz. Arriving in England in 1968, Thompson leveraged his street kid background to get legal employment as a social worker in the East London borough of Hackney.

The first publication by Centerprise was a book of poetry by a twelve-year-old boy named Vivian Usherwood, which sold 18,000 copies.

Until the mid-1980s, the Cooperative also operated a London bookshop at 144 Camden High Street. Writers and Readers" most successful and long-lived publishing venture was the. Foreign Beginners series of documentary comic books on complex topics, starting with the first title, Cuba for Beginners and covering subjects from Freud and Marx to Elvis Presley and deoxyribonucleic acid. A rift in the Cooperative resulted from one of the members issuing the United States. rights to several of the Beginners series to Pantheon Books, and the cooperative disbanded in 1984.

Following this rift, in 1987 Thompson took over as sole publisher and moved back to his hometown of New York City to establish a legal foothold and prevent any further copyright infringement of titles.

The United States. imprint was known as Writers and Readers Publishing, Incorporated., and was based in Harlem. In moving the company to Harlem, Thompson’s goal was to stimulate a new Harlem Renaissance by creating an international publishing house there.

He started two new imprints: Harlem River Press, publishing children's poetry, and Black Butterfly Children"s Books, books for the inner-city child. Thompson"s London-based company, formally established in 1992, was known as Writers and Readers Limited.

Foreign the balance of his life, Thompson moved back and forth between New York City and London.

Foreign years, Thompson spent his time traveling between England and New York to manage the two companies. Death

In n 2007, a consortium of investors revived the Foreign Beginners series under the name Foreign Beginners, Limited Liability Company. The new company has reprinted previous books in the series, and has promised to publish between six and nine new issues each year.

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