Djelloul Marbrook, also known as Del Mabrouk[1] (born 1934), is an American contemporary poet,[2] writer, and photographer.
[1] Marbook's father was Algerian and he moved with only his mother to New York City when he was a young child.
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.
[3] 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.