Dick Gregory

Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory, born October 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri, is a comedian, social activist, writer and entrepreneur.

Books

• Nigger: an autobiography, by Dick Gregory with Robert Lipsyte, Pocket Books, (Simon and Schuster), 1964. (one account says 1963) ISBN 06717135608
• Write me in!, Bantam, 1968.
• From the Back of the Bus
• What's Happening?
• The Shadow that Scares Me
• Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary, a book of Bible-based humor. ISBN 0812861949
• Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' With Mother Nature!
• (with Shelia P. Moses), Callus on My Soul : A Memoir ISBN 0758202024
• Up from Nigger
• No More Lies; The Myth and the Reality of American History
• Dick Gregory's political primer
• (with Mark Lane), Murder in Memphis: The FBI and the Assassination of Martin Luther King
• (with Mel Watkins), African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (Library of Black America)
• Robert Lee Green, Dick Gregory, daring Black leader
• African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (editor) ISBN 1556524307