I Too Sing America
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The project is the culmination of decades of reflection, research, and scholarship by Wil Haygood, acclaimed biographer and preeminent historian on Harlem and its cultural roots. In thematic chapters, the author captures the range and breadth of the Harlem Reniassance, a sweeping movement which saw an astonishing array of black writers and artists and musicians gather over a period of a few intense years, expanding far beyond its roots in Harlem to unleashing a myriad of talents upon the nation. The book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art.
Additional information
| Dimensions | 191 × 254 mm |
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| ISBN | 9780847863129 |
| Dimensions | 191 x 254 mm |
| Book Type | Hardback |
| Author | Wil Haygood |
| Author Bio | Wil Haygood, guest curator for the Columbus Museum of Art's I Too Sing America: Harlem Renaissance at 100, is a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Haygood has written 4 biographies of major Harlem figures who were all touched by the Harlem Renaissance. His King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., won the Richard Wright-Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award, the Deems Taylor Biography Award, and the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. His Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, was a PEN/ESPN Book Award Finalist. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination that Changed America, published in 2015, received the Scribes Book Award, the Ohioana Book Award, and the Honor Book Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and was also a finalist for the Dayton International Literary Peace Prize. Haygood, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, wrote the story about White House butler Eugene Allen that was adapted into the award-winning motion picture, The Butler, starring, among others, Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, and Cuba Gooding Jr. |
| Number of Pages | 224 |
