Stanley SykesStanley Sykes was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1953. He is the second oldest of five children. His mother Katie was a seamstress. His father Clifford worked in a large bakery in Manhattan. He had a normal childhood. By the third grade he was sent toan all-white school in Queens. There he met a variety of different nationalities. He loved to read and by the sixth grade, he had a college reading score. After graduating junior high school, he went to a high school in Brooklyn. He dropped out of school in 1970. He went back to school and got his G.C.D. in 1982. In 1994, he got a job as a nurse's aide in a state mental facility. He left work in 2006 due to medical reasons. Read More Read Less