Robert Deane Pharr
Robert Deane Pharr was an African-American novelist.
Pharr attended Saint Paul's Normal and Industrial School, Lincoln University, Virginia Union University and Fisk University, but spent most of his career working as a waiter. He described his goal when he started writing as to be a "black Sinclair Lewis". He is best known for his debut novel The Book of Numbers, about the numbers racket, which was adapted into a 1973 film of the same name.
