Suburban-Ghetto (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781450210294)

WILLIAM HAIRSTON is an Author, Playwright, Poet and former Actor. His books include: THE WORLD OF CARLOS(novel); SEX AND CONFLICT(novel); HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL/BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA; SPACED OUT!(A SPACE ADVENTURE) (novel); PASSION AND POLITICS(novel); POETRY AND PROSE OF PASSION AND COMPASSION(collection book); SWAN SONG (novel); IT'S HUMAN NATURE (story collection). His produced plays include: WALK IN DARKNESS (NYC); SWANSONG OF THE 11TH DAWN (NYC); DOUBLE DARE (Source Theatre Festival, Washington, DC); BLACK ANTIGONE, (N.C. Drama Festival). His play, IRA ALDRIDGE (THE LONDON CONFLICT), was the winner of The Group Theatre Best Playwright Competition Award (Seattle, Washington). He has had poems published in anthologies and magazines. He developed, published and edited the DC PIPELINE(Washington, DC Government employees newspaper, 40,000 monthly circulation); National Radio News Editor and Correspondent (for the DNC Presidential Campaign of 1968 - Nation wide); He wrote movie and TV scripts for the U.S. Information Agency, including; APOLLO-11 MAN ON THE MOON; TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; MEDIA HORA; JULES VERNE vs. REAL FLIGHT TO THE MOON; CHICAGO-PORTRAIT OF A CITY; and many more. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Grant, 2004 Creative Achievement Honored Alumni Award, Univ. Northern Colorado, and a Ford Foundation Theatre Fellowship. He was an actor of Stage, Television and Motion Pictures. He played a featured role in MGM's TAKE THE HIGH GROUND, with Richard Widmark and Karl Malden (1953) and had the leading role in HARLEM DETECTIVE (the first drama series with an African-American leading role. WOR TV (1953). He graduated from the University of Northern Colorado, BA, (Greeley), and took additional writing courses at Columbia and New York Universities. The Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, is the Repository of a collection of his creative, professional and personal works and documents.