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Harvard Book Store Author Series Co-Presents:

A Musical and Literary Tribute to
(son of Boston) SAMMY DAVIS JR.
Contact:
Charlotte Silver
Marketing Assistant
(617)661.0372 ext. 2
csilver@harvardsquarebookstore.com


Mayor Thomas M. Menino invites you to a literary and musical tribute to (son of Boston) Sammy Davis Jr, featuring Wil Haygood, author of newly released biography In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr. A reception and a book signing will follow the tribute.

RSVP for this event
by November 1, 2003

e-mail
Charlotte Silver at csilver@harvardsquarebookstore.com

or

call (617)661.0372 ext. 2.


book jacket

In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Alfred A. Knopf
Oct. 2003
isbn: 037540354X
$26.95


Other Books by Will Haygood

In this superb work of biography, Wil Haygood brings Sammy Davis, Jr., to life against the backdrop of 20th-century race relations. In Black and White transcends simple biography to become an important record, both celebratory and elegiacal, of a vanished America and its greatest entertainer.

EVENT: A musical and literary tribute to (son of Boston) Sammy Davis Jr., featuring WIL HAYGOOD, author of In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.
DATE: Wednesday, November 5th
TIME: 6 p.m.
VENUE: The Strand Theatre
543 Columbia Rd.
Dorchester, MA

Click Here for driving directions from Mapquest.

Please note that parking is available behind the Citizen’s Bank.

All Harvard Book Store events are free and open to the public. Please RSVP for this event: call (617)661.0372 ext. 2 or e-mail Charlotte Silver at csilver@harvardsquarebookstore.com.

Author Biography

Wil Haygood is currently a staff writer for the Style section of the Washington Post. For seventeen years he was a feature writer, and national and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe. He has received numerous awards, including the Sunday Magazine Editors Award, which he received twice; the New England Associated Press Award; the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Foreign Reporting (which he also won twice); the James Thurber Literary Fellowship; an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship; and a Yaddo Fellowship. He is also the author of Two on the River; King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; and The Haygoods of Columbus: A Family Memoir, which was awarded the Great Lakes Book Award. He lives in Washington, D.C.


Questions? E-mail Charlotte Silver.

 

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