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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
 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. He felt this energy and experienced these fires of social change.
After high school, Julius spent the next four years riding the "A" train to Harlem, in upper Manhattan, to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York. At CCNY, which was located just a few blocks from the famous Apollo Theater, Wednesday afternoons were hard on the undergraduates. The matinee performances of the major R&B groups of the times were more tempting than attending a boring college lecture. Most of the time he succumbed, but he attended enough classes to pass his courses and eventually earn a college degree from one of the best universities in the country.
At CCNY, literature instructors like Prof. Thomas Tashiro, fueled the fire in Julius to become a writer! In his novels, he allows the reader to experience places that are filled with the hopes, dreams, challenges, and fears that make us human. Julius is a published novelist after working as a copy boy with the New York Times and a sportswriter with the Philadelphia Bulletin.
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