1980
First Published
3.92
Average Rating
151
Number of Pages
Spotlights the celebrated jazz singer's struggle against loneliness, racism, jealousy, and heroin
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
13
5 STARS
31%
4 STARS
46%
3 STARS
8%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
0%
goodreads
Author
Alexis De Veaux
Author · 6 books
Alexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose work is published in six languages and internationally known. She is the author of several books and her work is anthologized in numerous collections. The recipient of many honors and awards, Alexis penned Warrior Poet (WW Norton, 2004), the first biography of the late lesbian poet activist, Audre Lorde; and was tenured faculty at the University at Buffalo, Department of Women’s Studies, for more than twenty years, mentoring a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars of black, feminist, and queer studies. She has won two Lambda Literary Awards; one for her Lorde biography (2005) and one for her novel, Yabo (2015).
