Betty Deramus

Forbidden Fruit

Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist, this is a collection of fascinating, true, and largely untold stories of couples who risked their lives to be together--demonstrating love as a driving force in the resistance to American slavery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atria Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780743482646
• ISBN-10: 0743482646
• Artikelnr.: 21489396

Autorenporträt

A veteran and award-winning journalist, Betty DeRamus was the jury's pick and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. She has been awarded a Michigan Press Association Award, as well as a Deems Taylor award for a profile of Roberta Flack published in Essence. DeRamus was one of an international group of select journalists who toured Central African refugee camps under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and one of a small group of journalists outside Verster prison in 1990 when Nelson Mandela finally left his cell. She has written about African American history for Essence, LIFE, North Star Journal, and Black World. She is a former commentator for The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, The Michigan Chronicle, and the British Broadcasting Company.