The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks - 1963 Fawcett Crest Paperback black literature Smith was an entertaining after-dinner

Smith was an entertaining after-dinner storyteller and in his fifties he decided to commit his stories to paper and is remembered for his Colonel Carter novels

of violence and love

and there were footprints in the snow

Blurb: Battle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as Trinity and Exodus

One of these images ran as the cover of LOOK magazine's February 28 issue

The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks - 1963 Fawcett Crest Paperback black literature Smith was an entertaining after-dinnerCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Spine tilt. Blurb: Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true to life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailed by critics and readers alike, THE LEARNING TREE tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in