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9780306804779

His Eye Is On The Sparrow An Autobiography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780306804779

  • ISBN10:

    0306804778

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-03-22
  • Publisher: Da Capo
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Summary

Ethel Waters'sHis Eye is on the Sparrowstands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman's experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface and over a dozen photographs.

Author Biography

Charles Samuels, a New York newspaperman, wrote biographies of Jody Garland, Lizzie Borden, and Evelyn Nesbit. He worked with Buster Keaton on My Wonderful World of Slapstick (also available from Da Capo Press). Donald Bogle is the author of Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars (also available from De Capo Press), Blacks in American Film & Television: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, and Toms, Coon, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive Histroy of Blacks in American Films. He has been called "the dean of black film history."

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