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Claude Brown

Age: 64

writer who vividly chronicled his experiences growing up poor in Harlem alongside drug dealers, murderers, and prostitutes in his 1965 bestseller Manchild in the Promised Land. The book reached a wide audience and exposed the masses to inner-city black culture.

Died: Manhattan, Feb. 2, 2002

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