Research Catalog
This life
- Title
- This life / Sidney Poitier.
- Author
- Poitier, Sidney.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf, 1980.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MWES (Poitier, S.) 96-15989 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 80-250 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- vi, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Awards (note)
- Coretta Scott King Award, author, 1981.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 80-250
- ISBN
- 0394505492
- 9780394505497
- LCCN
- 79003488
- OCLC
- 5892112
- Author
- Poitier, Sidney.
- Title
- This life / Sidney Poitier.
- Imprint
- New York : Knopf, 1980.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Coretta Scott King Award, author, 1981.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 80-250MWES (Poitier, S.) 96-15989