Robert Fleming Biography
Robert Fleming is an American journalist who writes erotic and horror fiction. He also serves as a contributing editor for Black Issues Book Review. He began writing in the early 1970s, while pursuing a full-time psychology degree at a local college.
Robert Fleming Age
He was born and raised in the United States of America.
Robert Fleming Education
He attended Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
Robert Fleming Family- Parents
Attempts to establish the identities of his family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Robert Fleming Career
His first writing job was in 1977 as an associate editor at Encore Magazine, a pioneering black newsmagazine that covered current events and hard journalism. His articles featured investigative investigations, and one such investigation—about the lives of rural black farmers in the Deep South—drew Fleming’s attention and resulted in a scholarship to Columbia University’s School of Journalism. After leaving the School of Journalism, he worked as a staff writer for the PBS TV show Media and Society, which brought together panels of prominent people from politics, religion, culture, and law to discuss current issues.
The series aired on PBS in the 1980s and 1990s. This led to a career as a correspondent for The New York Daily News throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. As a reporter, he received a New York Press Club Award, a Revson Fellowship, and numerous other accolades. Fleming abandoned the arduous business of hard journalism in order to write and teach. He continues to write for several publications, including Essence, Black Enterprise, The Source, U.S. News & World Report, Omni, Black Issues Book Review, Bookpage, Quarterly Black Review, The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly. He also experimented with creative writing, such as poetry and fiction, and later became an editor.
His first published creative works were two collections of poetry, Melons (1974) and Stars (1975). He presently teaches two journalism courses at The New School in New York City: “Media and the Black Experience” and “Hard and Soft News: Journalism for a New World”. His poems, essays, and short tales have been published in numerous books. The first was Dark Matter: The Anthology of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction by Black Writers, which was declared a New York Times significant book for being Black Writers’ first anthology of science fiction and fantasy. Fleming’s writing was also included in the collection of black erotica Brown Sugar.
Robert Fleming Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.
Robert Fleming Author
Melons – poetry (1974)
Stars – poetry (1975)
Rescuing A Neighborhood (1992)
The Success of Caroline Jones, Inc (1993)
The Wisdom of the Elders (1997)
“The Astral Visitor Delta Blues (2000)
The African American Writer’s Handbook (2000)
After Hours
Havoc After Dark (2002)
Intimacy: (2004)
Proverbs for the People (2004)
Fever in the Blood (2006)