David Hugo Barrett

New Book Places Author in the Company of Roth, Heard, and Baraka

Co-founder of Alpha Achievers leadership development program releases first of trilogy memoir series. In the tradition of Newark authors, Phillip Roth, Nathen Heard, and Amiri Baraka; David Hugo Barrett tells his story of how a city helped to shape his development from a young boy entering kindergarten to a young adult leaving for college. The journey reveals the role that strong family, teachers, and peers have in placing a child on a positive developmental path. - July 21, 2019