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Zusatztext an incisive and readable biography of an intriguing figure Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Talalay, the recipient of a 1988-1989 Rockefeller Foundation Grant, was on the faculty of Indiana University for fourteen years. The author of numerous articles and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, she is currently a project editor at W.W. Norton & Company in New York City. Klappentext George Schuyler, a renowned black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would `invigorate' the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler, became the embodiment of this theory. Able to read and write at the age of two and a half, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Phillippa was often compared toMozart. But as an adult she mysteriously dropped out of sight, performing for dignitaries around the world, and embarking on a career as a right-wing journalist ¿ `Felipa Monterro' from Madagascar ¿ who supported the Vietnam war. On May 9, 1967, at the age of 35, her life was tragically cut short ina helicopter accident over Da Nang.The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, Composition in Black and White draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality. Zusammenfassung This volume presents the life-story of Philippa Duke Schuyler, the daughter of a black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, who believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, producing extraordinary offspring.
