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Dewey Roscoe Jones II
The author, Dewey Roscoe Jones, received a BA degree in Journalism form the University of Michigan in 1922. He settled in Chicago and started working for the Chicago Defender, a Black owned and ope...visualizza altroThe author, Dewey Roscoe Jones, received a BA degree in Journalism form the University of Michigan in 1922. He settled in Chicago and started working for the Chicago Defender, a Black owned and operated newspaper with national circulation. At the Defender he managed a column on Poetry, called Lights and Shadows; he wrote numerous book reviews, and published regular columns on current events and was promoted to City Editor. In 1931 he matriculated at Columbia University and received a MA in journalism in 1932 while continuing to write fo the Chicago Defender. He returned to Chicago and became the Managing Editor. While he printed excerpts form the Novel in his weekly column Pointed Paragraphs in 1935, he did not publish the complete work. He met an untimely death in 1939 without having published the complete Novel. His widow and son preserved the manuscript . His son, Dewey Roscoe Jones II, has completed and edited the maunscript and added an introduction to the book. Dewey Roscoe Jones II received a BA in Liberal Arts from the Unirsity of Chicago, an MA in Spanish Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a Juris Doctor degree from the Chicago Kent College of Law .visualizza meno