Leon Forrest
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Leon Richard Forrest (January 8, 1937 – November 6, 1997), an African-American novelist.
His books were concerned with mythology, culture, and Chicago. In Chicago, Forrest was born into a middle-class family.
His mother was Catholic and from New Orleans, while his father's family was Baptist.
His paternal grandmother was instrumental in his early upbringing.
After winning an award, Forrest returned to a racially integrated high school, but he wasn't a good student except for writing.
In 1956, his parents divorced; his mother remarried; and the couple opened a liquor store. Forrest attended Wendell Phillips grade school and Hyde Park High School.
Wilson Junior College for a year, then took classes at Roosevelt University and the University of Chicago before dropping out and serving as a Public Information Officer in the military.
After leaving the military, he returned to the University of Chicago and worked for the Catholic Interracial Council's Speakers Bureau.
He began working for Muhammad Speaks, a Nation of Islam newspaper in 1969.
Forrest will be the last non-Muslim editor of the paper. It's first book, There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden, was published in 1973 and included an introduction by Ralph Ellison.
Toni Morrison, a Nobel Laureate, edited There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden, his next two books The Bloodworth Orphanage, and Two Wings to Veil My Face.
These three books were referred to as the Forest County Trilogy.
Charlie Parker, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Ralph Ellison, and his parents' faiths were all used as inspirations. He began writing and literature at Northwestern University in 1973, and the African-American Studies department remained from 1985 to 1994.
Divine Days, James Joyce's last book, was based on Ulysses.
Blessed Days, a 1,100-page book by noted scholar and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, died of cancer in Evanston, Illinois, at the age of 60.
Meteor in the Madhouse, a series of connected novellas, was published posthumously in 2001, with his widow Marianne Forrest acting as literary executor. Forrest was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2013.