Eric Bronson
Neverland Publishing
24 NW 102nd Street
Miami, FL 33150
9780988829008 $16.95 www.neverlandpublishing.com
King of Rags is the story of African-American ragtime musician Scott Joplin (1867/1868? - April 1, 1917), but not a traditional biography. Instead, it is a novel based on Joplin's varied and adventurous life; all characters, places, and incidents described are either fictitious, or in the case of Joplin's historical contemporaries, used fictitiously. King of Rags lionizes Joplin as a crusader for racial justice fifty years before...