Brian W. Thomas is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, and educator whose work examines identity and transformation. A Yale graduate and longtime school leader, he appeared as Robert in A Different World and created the Emmy-winning Fastbreak to Glory: The Du Sable Panthers Story. Manchild at Yale is his debut novel.
MANCHILD AT YALE – A novel
Manchild at Yale is a coming-of-age novel chronicling Schaeffer Burley’s four-year journey to earn his bachelor’s degree at Yale University in the early 1980s, exploring the challenges faced by a Black student from a working-class Chicago background as he strives to find his identity and place within a world of elite institutions and complex opportunity.
