Word: manchild
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DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author whose streetwise chronicle of growing up poor in Harlem, Manchild in the Promised Land, became a provocative civil rights-era best seller; of lung disease; in New York City. With its profanity and vivid descriptions of a childhood among pimps, drugs and gangs, Brown's 1965 book impressed critics and sold 4 million copies...
...community. DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, scientist who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping out the molecular structure of human hemoglobin with colleague John Kendrew; in Cambridge, England. Perutz's work laid the foundation for human genome and disease research. DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, which closely follows his own experiences growing up among killers, prostitutes and drug addicts on the streets of Harlem in the 1950s; in New York City. Published in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement, Brown's stark novel sold four million copies. DIED...