Background
Brooks, Jerome was born on July 17, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Samuel and Rose (Malina) Brooks.
(Infatuated with the teacher who placed her in an honors p...)
Infatuated with the teacher who placed her in an honors program, fifteen-year-old Hope becomes spokesman for the gifted students when trouble appears to be simmering between that teacher and another in the program.
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children's book writer English language educator
Brooks, Jerome was born on July 17, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Samuel and Rose (Malina) Brooks.
Bachelor in English, Roosevelt University, 1953. Master of Arts in English, George Washington University, 1957.
Assistant professor, Fenger Southwest College, Chicago, 1958-1965; chairman English department, Fenger Southwest College, Chicago, 1959-1965; Professor of English, Richard J. Daley College, Chicago, 1970-1989; Professor of English, Harry S. Truman College, Chicago, 1990-1992; assistant to president, Crane College, Chicago, 1965-1966; dean urban education center, City Colls. Chicago, 1966-1968; acting dean faculty, Richard J. Daley College, Chicago, 1968-1970. Lecturer fiction writing workshop public program University of Chicago, since 1990.
(Infatuated with the teacher who placed her in an honors p...)
(An overweight underachiever, Hope Gallagher is shocked an...)
(Through its two major metaphors, nakedness and winter, th...)
With United States Army, 1953-1955. Member Author's Guild, Society Midland Authors (board directors), Society Children's Book Writers, Children's Reading Round Table Chicago M C.
Married Marilyn Glaser, May 27, 1956 (divorced November 1970). Children: Eliot M. (deceased), Iris Judith (deceased), Elise Beth. Married Kathleen Tucker, August 30, 1980.