Julius Thompson Writes!
Author Profile
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Readers Wanted!
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! 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
I 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. I felt this energy and experienced these fires of social change. After high school, I spent the next four years riding the "A" train to Harlem, in upper Manhattan, to earn my 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 were more tempting than attending a boring college lecture. Most of the time I succumbed, but I attended enough classes to pass my courses and eventually earn a college degree from one of the best universities in the country. At CCNY, literature instructors like Prof. Thomas Tashiro, fueled the fire in me to become a writer!
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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