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First Person

Sep. 1, 2007

In Pro Per

After reading the latest John Grisham novel, I told myself I was going to write a legal thriller one day—and it would include some lawyers who look like me. By Pamela Samuels-Young

By Pamela Samuels-Young
     
      A Desire for Diversity
      I was around twelve when I discovered a battered copy of Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land at my aunt's home. The gritty coming-of-age story of a Harlem teen pulled me in from the very first sentence. Prior to that time, I have no recollection of reading a book that contained African Amer...

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