A revealing collection of words, memories, and pictures—an autobiographical scrapbook—by an outstanding contemporary playwright.
In this remarkable memoir, Adrienne Kennedy charts her life from growing up in Cleveland in the 1930s and '40s in a middle-class Black family through marriage, motherhood, and her eventual move to New York City in the '50s. Out of a sequence of deceptively spare statements emerges a complex portrait of the artist as a young woman, as she examines the people and events that compelled her to be a writer.