Blyden Jackson (novelist)

Blyden Brown Jackson Jr. (1937 – April 29, 2012) was an American Civil Rights activist, Marine, Author, and Emergency Medical Technician.[1] He is best known for his novels Operation Burning Candle and Totem. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut and died in Bayonne, New Jersey.[1] During his life he served in the US Marines, where his experiences helped shaped the writing of Operation Burning Candle.[2] He served as the chairman of the New Haven, Connecticut chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the early-to-mid-1960s. He later founded and became the chairman of East River CORE, located on the east side of 125th street in Harlem, in New York City.[3] He dated Eleanor Holmes Norton in the 1960s.[4] After writing Operation Burning Candle and Totem he was interested in writing a novel about Bellevue Hospital.[2]

Blyden Jackson
Born1937
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedApril 29, 2012(2012-04-29) (aged 74–75)
Bayonne, New Jersey, United States
Occupation
  • Civil Rights activist
  • Marine
  • Author
  • Emergency Medical Technician
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Genre

Education

Jackson took fiction writing classes at New York University where he was taught by Sidney Offit.[2]

Novels

Media appearances

  • 1974-05-04. "Novelist Blyden Jackson, an SCE writing student, discusses his 1973 novel Operation Burning Candle with host Walter James Miller".[5]

References

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