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Hi, I’m glad you found my web site. I am excited about sharing my new book, Black Angels with you. I wrote Black Angels because I was interested in how young people survived the Civil War in our country, and lived through challenging adventures that even some grown-ups wouldn’t have been able to survive. There are three main characters in this story: Daylily who is nine, Luke who is twelve, and Caswell who is seven. There is also a very interesting encounter with a special Black Indian woman who saves their lives. |
***Black Angels selected as one of the Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best Books" of 2009! Praise for Black Angels Shelia P. Moses “This novel and the character Luke will move readers like Huckleberry Finn moved us on the Mississippi River 100 years ago.” Sharon G. Flake “Young people will be reading Black Angels for generations. Teachers will be assigning it and studying it for ages. It’s a history lesson, adventure story, and a lesson in love, surviving tough times, and depending on God and one another, all at the same time . . . I loved every word.” Alice Randall “The American Revolution has Johnny Tremain, now the Civil War has Black Angels. Nikki Giovanni “Black Angels by Linda Beatrice Brown has found a way to bring home the sadness and the hope of The Civil War. Children finding themselves in the woods must find a way to cooperate to survive. But survival is not efficient: they must also find a way to love. What could easily have become a cloying story has instead emerged as all our stories, as we, in this modern age of financial and emotional difficulties, find ourselves in a political forest trying to find a way to be fair and just and caring while understanding that our better selves are not always on display. Black Angels needs a cup of hot cinnamon tea, a blanket across our knees and a little bit of our time to go on a marvelous journey to America’s best self when we struggled to free the future of hate and fear.” Edward P. Jones “Black Angels is -- if my memory does not fail me -- the first "young readers" novel I've ever read. Had I known such a category of literature could contain the kind of well-realized and skillfully rendered world as we find in black angels, I would have been here ages ago. With her Luke, Daylily and Caswell, Dr. Brown has presented her readers with people as well-rounded and as poignant as any to be found in "adult" fiction. Her three major characters offer a civil war landscape that is even more tragic and heartfelt and devastating because it comes through the eyes of the most innocent and vulnerable in any war.”
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Linda Beatrice Brown is the author of three novels. She also writes poems, plays, short stories, and essays. She started writing at the age of 14 and her first poetry was published at the age of 19. For many years she has been a professor of African American Literature. For several years she was even a speech writer for a college president. |
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