| Brown, Claude (6550 words) |
 | Claude's book served as a source of inspiration for many, and his willingness to talk with youth in and out of the juvenile justice system about his life and his book cannot be forgotten. |
| Claude Brown was born in 1937 in Harlem and grew up in a tenement on 146th Street and Eighth Avenue with his younger brother and two sisters. |
| Claude known as Sonny to his friends and in the book was expelled from school at 8, admitted to a street gang at 9, shot in the leg during a burglary at 13 and confined to a reform school at 14. |
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