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  • Anna Deavere Smith

    Anna Deavere Smith discusses her career

    May. 4, 1995

    Anna Deavere Smith discusses and demonstrates her unique character portrayals from her works "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992."

  • Joan Kufrin

    Joan Kufrin discusses her book "Uncommon Women"

    Mar. 21, 1982

    Discussing the book, 'Uncommon Women', published in 1981. The book chronicles the lives of Gwendolyn Brooks, Julie Harris, Sarah Caldwell, Maria Tallchief, Alice Neel, Mary McCarthy, Eugenia Zukerman, Roberta Peters, and Mary Lou Williams, discussing the impressive things they have accomplished in their respective professions ranging from poetry, to opera, to literature, and art and abstraction.

  • Discussing the book "And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South" witht Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael Williamson

    May. 19, 1989
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