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Julius Thompson Thrillogy
Overview! Part One:
A Brownstone In Brooklyn Part Two: Philly
Style and Philly Profile Part Three: Ghost of
Atlanta The saga of
Andy Michael Pilgrim is a journey through the sixties in A Brownstone In Brooklyn, the seventies in Philly
Style and Philly Profile and the eighties in Ghost of Atlanta. The reader follows Andy as he matured
in the turbulent sixties in Brooklyn with the Civil Rights movement, his working career as a sportswriter in the seventies
in Philadelphia watching the influence of drugs and gangs destroy young people’s lives, and in the eighties in Atlanta
where he faces demons from his youth and see the effects of reverse migration of African-Americans from the northern cities
back to the new south. Andy’s thirty-year odyssey from Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Atlanta showcase new life-altering situations and problems that faced African-Americans in the last half of the twentieth century. Watch
my YouTube Video: Julius Thompson on Tour!
In my novels, I want the reader to experience places that are filled with hopes, dreams, challenges and fears that make us human. Come join me in this reading adventure! Julius Thompson On tour: You Tube Video
The Champion Newspaper feature article on Julius Thompson! Read Nigel Roberts feature article on Julius Thompson online at the following link:http://victorypub.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/thompson.33733243.pdf
Background Information
Julius Thompson grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York and attended Bushwick High
School. The sixties in Brooklyn was an era that had a personality, a feel, and a life-force that changed a generation. Mr.
Thompson felt this energy and experienced these fires of social change.
After high school,
Mr. Thompson spent the next four years riding the "A" train to Harlem, in upper Manhattan, to earn a Bachelor of
Arts degree from the City College of New York. At CCNY, which was located just a few blocks from the famous Apollo Theater,
Wednesday afternoons were hard on the undergraduates. The matinee performances
of the major R&B groups of the times was more tempting than attending a boring college lecture. Most of the time Mr. Thompson
succumbed to the temptation, but still earned a college degree from one of the best universities in the country.
At CCNY, literature
instructors like Prof. Thomas Tashiro, fueled the fire in him to become a writer! Mr. Thompson’s journey to compose a trilogy began in 1995. The fourteen year fictional journey
of character Andy Michael Pilgrim from Brooklyn, to Philadelphia and finally Atlanta is now complete. In this pilgrimage,
readers experience places that are filled with hopes, dreams, challenges and fears that make us human.
The novels that make up the trilogy are A Brownstone in Brooklyn which was published in 2001, Philly Style and Philly Profile in 2007 and Ghost of Atlanta in January 2011. Mr. Thompson won the 2011 Readers Favorite National Gold Medal Award in General Fiction for Ghost of Atlanta. Mr. Thompson also received the Georgia Author of the Year nomination for Philly Style and Philly Profile, from the Georgia Writers Association, in 2007, and Ghost of Atlanta in 2011. Mr. Thompson’s fourth novel, Purple Phantoms, which is a story about the haunting of a mythical high school basketball team, will be published in 2012. Mr. Thompson is currently a Creative Writing/Publishing Instructor at Atlanta’s Evening at Emory’s Writers Studio.
Additional Information
I've signed copies of A Brownstone In Brooklyn and Philly Style & Philly Style at the prestigious New York Is Book Country Festival in New York City, the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, the AJC-Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, Georgia, the Gwinnett Reading Festival in Lawrenceville, Georgia and at the Miami Book Fair International in Maimi, Florida. I've had book signings in the following book stores: Barnes & Nobles, Borders, Chapter 11, Books-A-Million, Nubian bookstore, the African Spectrum bookstore, Philadelphia's Robins Bookstore, and I've been one of the featured speakers at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Creative Arts Fair in Brooklyn, and I've been part of a panel of authors at the Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta, Georgia and the Gwinnett County Library System. Accomplishments
When I was a sportswriter with the Philadelphia Bulletin, I won the Associated Press Sports Editors Award in 1977. This award was a National sportswriting award given for the third-best sports story written that year.Currently, I'm a Creative Writing/Publishing instructor at Evening at Emory. |
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