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Alabama's Contribution To Contemporary Literature: Profiling Albert Murray

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“Alabama’s Contribution to Contemporary Literature: Profiling Albert Murray Albert Murray was a native Alabamian and also a black American literary. Murray was also a jazz critic, novelist, essayist and biographer. He was born on May 12, 1916. In Nokomis, Escambia County, Alabama. Born out of wedlock, he was adopted in infancy by a working-class family and raised in a black enclave of Mobile, AL. He moved to Magazine Point which was located in Mobile County, where he resided for his child hood years. Murray attended Mobile County Training School where he had participated in several sports and theater productions. He recalled growing up in a bustling community of Pullman porters and not to mention blues and jazz music that fired his ardor

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