Leon Forrest

There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden

Odyssey-like journey exploring African-American consciousness, history, and mythic spiritual transformation

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Leon Forrest

Leon Forrest was a Chicago novelist whose ambitious There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden and Divine Days created a sprawling, Faulknerian mythology of Black Chicago. Ralph Ellison called him the most gifted Black novelist of his generation.

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