Robert Deane Pharr

Robert Deane Pharr (1916–1989[1] or 1992[2]) was an African-American novelist.[3][4]

Pharr attended Saint Paul's Normal and Industrial School, Lincoln University, Virginia Union University and Fisk University,[2] but spent most of his career working as a waiter.[1] He graduated from Virginia Union University in 1939, and did graduate work at Fisk, Columbia University, and New York University.[5] He described his goal when he started writing as to be a "black Sinclair Lewis".[2][3] He is best known for his debut novel The Book of Numbers (1969), about the numbers racket, which was adapted into a 1973 film of the same name.[1][6] A draft of his novel Giveadamn Brown and related correspondence were given to the Archives and Special Collections Department, L. Douglas Wilder Library, at Virginia Union University.[7]

Works
  • The Book of Numbers (1969)
  • S.R.O. (1971)
  • The Welfare Bitch (1973)[8]
  • The Soul Murder Case (1975)
  • Giveadamn Brown (1978)

References
  1. "The Book of Numbers". University of Virginia Press. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. Roberts, John J. "Robert Deane Pharr (1916–1992)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. O'Brien, John; Singh, Raman K. (1974). "Interview with Robert Deane Pharr". Negro American Literature Forum. 8 (3): 244. doi:10.2307/3041467. JSTOR 3041467.
  4. Epps, Garrett (1976). "To Know the Truth: The Novels of Robert Deane Pharr". Hollins Critic. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  5. "Robert Deane Pharr, Novelist, 75". The New York Times. 1992-04-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  6. "Robert Deane Pharr (1916-1992), from The Oxford Companion to African-American Literature". Oxford Reference. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  7. "A Guide to the Pharr, Robert Deane, Papers MS-0002". ead.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  8. This title appears to have been unpublished. See: Greene, Brian. "A Black Sinclair Lewis: The Novels of Robert Deane Pharr." In Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980. Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, editors. Oakland, California: PM Press, 2020. ISBN 9781629635248. page 130.
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