Julius Thompson

Julius Thompson grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York and attended Bushwick High School. The sixties in Brooklyn was an era that had a personality, a feel, and a life-force that changed a generation. Mr. Thompson felt this energy and experienced these fires of social change. After high school, Mr. Thompson spent the next four years riding the "A" train to Harlem, in upper Manhattan, to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York. At CCNY, literature instructors like Professor Thomas Tashiro, fueled the fire in him to become a writer. Julius Thompson is an Award-Winning Author! The books include: A Brownstone in Brooklyn, Philly Style and Philly Profile and the 2011 Readers Favorite National Gold Medal Award for General Fiction for Ghost of Atlanta.