Bliss broyard biography template

  • She was born in , two years after the arrival of her brother, Todd, and was raised in a series of eighteenth-century farmhouses in Connecticut.
  • Bliss Broyard is the author of the short story collection My Father, Dancing and the memoir/social history One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life — A Story of.
  • His daughter, Bliss Broyard, writes about how she learned of her father's hidden life and explored her black ancestry in the memoir One Drop.

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    Bliss Broyard

    After the literary critic Anatole Broyard died in , his family arranged a memorial reception at a suburban Connecticut yacht club. It was a club that claimed to have no black members until, after Mr. Broyard’s death, his mixed racial lineage was made known. After that, the club cited him as evidence of integration.

    What was it like for Mr. Broyard to keep his secret in such surroundings? For a self-made man who had come so far in life, reading so many books in the process, did the clubhouse’s view of Long Island Sound bring to mind the grand illusions of “The Great Gatsby”?

    Not likely, says his smart, tough-minded daughter, Bliss Broyard, in “One Drop,” an investigative memoir about her father’s life. (Mr. Broyard was a longtime book critic and editor for The New York Times and an essayist for its Book Review.) As this fascinating, insightful book makes clear, Mr. Broyard left a legacy of racial confusion and great autobiographical material, not necessarily in t

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    Anatole Broyard

    African-American writer and critic (–)

    Anatole Paul Broyard (July 16, – October 11, ) was an American writer, literary critic, and editor who wrote for The New York Times. In addition to his many reviews and columns, he published short stories, essays, and two books during his lifetime. His autobiographical works, Intoxicated by My Illness () and Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (), were published after his death.

    Several years after his death, Broyard became the center of controversy when it was revealed that he had "passed" as white despite being a Louisiana Creole of mixed-race ancestry.

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    Early life

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    Anatole Paul Broyard was born on July 16, , in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a Black Louisiana Creole family, the son of Paul Anatole Broyard, a carpenter and construction worker, and his wife, Edna Miller, neither of whom had finished elementary school. Broyard was descended from ancestors who were establis

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    DATE September 27, ACCOUNT NUMBER N/A
    TIME Noon PM AUDIENCE N/A
    NETWORK NPR
    PROGRAM Fresh Air

    Interview: Bliss Broyard, daughter of writer Anatole Broyard and
    author of the family memoir "One Drop," on her father&#;s hidden
    racial heritage
    TERRY GROSS, host:

    This fryst vatten FRESH AIR. I&#;m Terry Gross.

    In the literary world, it was somewhere between a rumor and an open secret
    that the writer Anatole Broyard was a light-skinned black man passing for
    white. Broyard wrote a couple of terrific memoirs. "Kafka Was the Rage" was
    about living the bohemian life as a young man in Greenwich Village after World
    War II. "Intoxicated by My Illness" was about the end of his life when he was
    dying of prostate cancer. Broyard was also a long-time book critic and
    columnist for The New York Times. He kept his racial identity a secret from
    his two children. When he was dying, they knew he had a secret but they
    didn&#;t find out what it was until very close to th