Thursday, October 20, 2011

Piri Thomas, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: Piri Thomas, the writer and poet whose 1967 memoir, “Down These Mean Streets,” chronicled his tough childhood in Spanish Harlem and the outlaw years that followed and became a classic portrait of ghetto life, died on Monday at his home in El Cerrito, Calif. He was 83.

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

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