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Full Name: Julius B Lester
Biography:
(1939-2018) Author. Julius Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in Palmer, Massachusetts. He moved to New York in the early 1960s.
Author's Timeline:
1939 (Unknown) County
Julius Bernard Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on January 27, 1939. 
2018 (Unknown) County
Julius Lester died in Palmer, Massachusetts, on January 18, 2018. 
1968 (Unknown) County
Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama
(Pub: The Dial Press, Inc., New York ISBN: )
Nonfiction. 
1976 (Unknown) County
All Is Well
(Pub: Morrow ISBN: 0688030459 / 978-0688030452)
Memoir. 
1988 (Unknown) County
Lovesong: Becoming a Jew
(Pub: Henry Holt & Co. ISBN: 0805005889 / 978-0805005882)
Memoir. 
1968 (Unknown) County
To Be a Slave
(Pub: Dial ISBN: 0803789556 / 978-0803789555)
Nonfiction children's book. 
1996 (Unknown) County
Sam and the Tigers
(Pub: Dial ISBN: 0803720297 / 978-0803720299)
Children's book. 
1969 (Unknown) County
Revolutionary Notes
(Pub: Grove Press ISBN: 0394171640 / 978-0394171647)
Nonfiction. 
2004 (Unknown) County
The Autobiography of God
(Pub: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 0312288204 / 978-0312288204)
Novel. 
2006 (Unknown) County
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
(Pub: Paw Prints ISBN: 1435244583 / 978-1435244580)
Children's book. 
1961 New York County
Mr. Lester moved to New York in 1961 after graduating from Fisk University in 1960. There, he performed as a singer and guitarist on the coffeehouse circuit. 
1968 New York County
Mr. Lester taught Afro-American history at the New School for Social Research from 1968 to 1970. 
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