Author:Sterling Allen Brown

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Sterling Allen Brown
(1901–1989)

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American professor, folklorist, poet, literary critic, and the first Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia, who chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a professor at Howard University for most of his career

Works

Poetry

In Caroling Dusk (1927), edited by Countee Cullen
"Odyssey of Big Boy"

"Maumee Ruth"

"Long Gone"

"To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

"Salutamus"

"Challenge"

"Return"
Southern Road (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R249673

Literary criticism

Outline for the study of the poetry of American Negroes (1931)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027 due to Renewal R235166
The Negro in American Fiction (1937) (external scan)

As editor

The Negro Caravan (1941)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2037 due to Renewal R464148

Works about Brown

"Sterling A. Brown" by Sterling A. Brown, in Caroling Dusk (1927), edited by Countee Cullen

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1989, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 35 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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