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Leon Richard Forrest (January 8, 1937 – November 6, 1997) was an African-American novelist who taught at Northwestern University from 1973 until his death. His four major novels used mythology, history, and humor to explore "Forest County," a fictional world that resembled the south side of Chicago where Forrest grew up.
Leon Forrest was an African-American author of large, inventive novels that fuse myth, history, legend, and contemporary realism. Forrest attended the University of Chicago and served in the U.S. Army before beginning his career as a writer.
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May 23, 2024 · For the experimental novelist Leon Forrest, the sermon was a major source of inspiration: a flexible form, especially as refined in the African American tradition, that lends itself to both lofty rhetoric and common speech, mingling history, personal observation, moral assertion, and the interpretation of myth—to say nothing of the joy of allusion.
Nov 6, 1997 · Leon Richard Forrest was an African-American novelist. His novels concerned mythology, history, and Chicago. His first novel, There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden, was published in 1973, and included an introduction from Ralph Ellison.
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Nov 10, 1997 · Leon Forrest, a writer who explored black American history in his richly complex, epic novels, died on Thursday at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill. He was 60 and lived in Evanston....
"Leon Forrest" published on by null. (1937–1997),Chicago-born and reared, has long taught African-American Studies at Northwestern University, and written novels often said to be particularly influenced by Faulkner.
Nov 6, 1997 · A professor of English and African-American studies at Northwestern University for 24 years, Forrest’s stream-of-consciousness writing concerned the legacy of slavery and earned him a place on Chicago Magazine’s “Most Important Chicagoans of the 20th Century.”
