Jim Crow America
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 237, [1] pages. DJ worn, torn, soiled, and chilled. Bookplate of Richard Allan Yaffe inside front board. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads: To Dick from Earl with best wishes. Hole you lke it, Dick. Regards to wife. E.C. Earl Conrad (17 December 1906 - 17 January 1986), birth name Cohen, was an American author who penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote was the autobiography of actor Errol Flynn, titled My Wicked, Wicked Ways. Conrad wished to be a writer from a young age, and his early experience included a stint at the Auburn Advertiser-Journal. He worked as a journalist for the newspaper PM in New York City, and other papers. As the Harlem Bureau Chief for The Chicago Defender, an African American title, he investigated lynchings in the south. This work brought him into contact with Haywood Patterson. In 1950, Conrad co-wrote Patterson's memoir, Scottsboro Boy, about his experience as one of the group of nine men accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. Some of his papers are in the local history collection of the Cayuga Community College in Auburn. Other papers are in the collection of the university of Oregon. His interests as a writer included biographies of show business personalities, such as his memoir of Errol Flynn and his biography of Dorothy Dandridge; and issues related to African Americans, such as his biographies of Harriet Tubman. His work on Jim Crow America is considered by some to be a civil rights classic. More