Djelloul Marbrook, also known as Del Mabrouk[1] (born 1934), is an American contemporary poet,[2] writer, and photographer.
Biography
Djelloul Marbrook was born in 1934 in Algiers, Algeria, to parents Juanita Guccione (née Rice) and Ben Aissa ben Mabrouk.[1] Marbook's father was Algerian and he moved with only his mother to New York City when he was a young child.[3] He was raised by his extended family, primarily by his grandmother and aunts.[3] Marbook grew up in Brooklyn, West Islip, and Manhattan. He attended Dwight Preparatory School, and Columbia University.
Marbook worked as a soda jerk, newspaper vendor, messenger, theater and nightclub concessionaire, and served in the United States Navy and as a Merchant Marine before beginning his newspaper career. Marbrook learned photography in the United States Navy and became a reporter-photographer. Marbrook was married to Wanda Ratliff from 1955 to 1963, which ended in divorce.[1] He is married to Marilyn Hackett Marbrook.[3]
Career
He was a reporter for The Providence Journal[4] and an editor for the Elmira Star-Gazette,[4] The Baltimore Sun,[5] Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, The Washington Star,[5] and Media News newspapers in northeast Ohio, and Passaic and Paterson, New Jersey. His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in a number of journals.
