Researching Charles Perry
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The name Charles means "Man, strong" and is of German origin.
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Charles Perry (author)
Charles Perry (1924–1969) was an African American author whose only published novel was Portrait of a Young Man Drowning. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, but moved to Brooklyn when he was still in grade school. During the 1940s, he was a co-star of the hit radio series New World A-Coming.
Portrait of a Young Man Drowning draws heavily on Perry's first hand research of gangsters and juvenile delinquents in his own Brooklyn neighbourhood. An homage to James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel is written in the first person and tells the story of Harold, a young man who gets sucked into Brooklyn's underworld scene, while living with an overbearing mother. The novel was considered ground-breaking when it was first published in 1962, not least because it was one of the first novels written in the first person by a black author with a white protagonist.
Perry soon began work on a semi-autobiographical account of the death of his 11-year-old son, who died falling from a tree onto a rod iron fence. Charles Jr., entitled I Wake Up Screaming.
He died of cancer.
Portrait of a Young man Drowning was made into a film entitled Six Ways to Sunday in 1997.
As well as writing Perry also appeared in over 30 films mainly in minor roles.
Source: Charles Perry (author), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaCharles Perry (Canadian politician)
Charles Perry (7 December 1818 – 7 July 1876) was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the 1st Canadian Parliament representing Peterborough West.
He was born in Cobourg, the son of Ebenezer Perry. He entered the timber trade, purchasing land in the Peterborough area and building a large sawmill on the current site of Trent University in 1854. Perry served as mayor of Peterborough in 1853 and from 1861 to 1865. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the legislative assembly for the Province of Canada in a by-election held in 1864. Perry was a customs collector at Peterborough from 1873 to 1876 and died in Peterborough in the latter year.
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