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Charles Perry (1924–1969) was an African American author whose only published novel was ''Portrait of a Young Man Drowning''. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, but moved to Brooklyn when he was still in grade school. During the 1940s, he was a co-star of the hit radio series ''New World A-Coming''. ''Portrait of a Young Man Drowning'' draws heavily on Perry's first hand research of gangsters and juvenile delinquents in his own Brooklyn neighbourhood. An homage to James Joyce's ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'', the novel is written in the first person and tells the story of Harold, a young man who gets sucked into Brooklyn's underworld scene, while living with an overbearing mother. The novel was considered ground-breaking when it was first published in 1962, not least because it was one of the first novels written in the first person by a black author with a white protagonist. Perry soon began work on a semi-autobiographical account of the murder of his 11-year-old son, Charles Jr., entitled ''I Wake Up Screaming''. He died of cancer. ''Portrait of a Young man Drowning'' was made into a film entitled Six Ways to Sunday in 1997. As well as writing Perry also appeared in over 30 films mainly in minor roles.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Perry (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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