The Learning Tree

1st ed., 303 pages ; 22 cm LCCN 63016528 LC PS3566.A73 ISBN: 9780060132804, 0060132809 ; Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s-particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans-and in glamour photography. ; Newt is a young Negro boy growing up in Kansas, part of a large and wholly believable family. In the 1920s as he enters his teens in the racially segregated small town, events involving a group of delinquents and a cyclone are as dramatic as life gets.The family and their relations with each other and with whites are convincing. The novel observes the daily, less dramatic events that surround and involve Newt and his family with clear eyes, and is warm, well-written, and very much alive. Autobiographical novel by famed photographer Gordon Parks. ; "A Harper find"--Dust jacket ; FINE/FINE.