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This life / Sidney Poitier.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poitier, Sidney.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poitier, Sidney.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- United States.
- Actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 374 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1980.
- Summary:
- An autobiography of the actor who arrived in Miami, from the Bahamas, at age sixteen. Some of his movies have been "A Raisin in the Sun," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," and "In the Heat of the Night."
- Contents:
- Cat Island
- Nassau
- Miami
- New York
- The Army
- Learning to act
- On the road
- Hollywood
- Cry, the beloved country
- Juanita
- Politics
- Africa
- Tensions
- Survivors
- Porgy and Otto
- Diahann
- A raisin in the sun
- Death
- Academy Award
- Analysis
- Discoveries
- Joanna
- The Bahamas
- Harry
- Black films
- Marriage
- The young.
- Notes:
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Winner, 1981
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Poitier, Sidney. This life.
- ISBN:
- 0394505492
- 9780394505497
- OCLC:
- 5892112
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