His book is an "anguished and eloquent meditation on the soul of black America," Claude Brown said here last year.

Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) is an autobiographical novel written by Claude Brown.

In school, he came under the guidance of the musical director Claude Brown, whose teaching he regarded as "an indispensable foundation to my subsequent musical career".

Claude Brown, the postmaster, reminded me more than ever of a sad-faced basset hound.

They were even sending a courier to pick it up, a fact that rankled Claude Brown to no end.

Claude Brown, "Manchild in the Promised Land" 12.

Claude Brown, who hosted the dinner, said the "aggressive exchange" spoiled the evening.

Claude Brown survived his Harlem.

Claude Brown died of respiratory failure in 2002.

Claude Brown was fated, it seems, to narrate the story of his troubled generation of black men.