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Fearless and free : a memoir
Baker, Josephine, 1906-19752025
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This is the iconic Josephine Baker in her own words. Funny, candid and unconventional- the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker tells her own story in this enchanting memoir. Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and effervescence on stage. She became an icon. Hemingway, Jean Cocteau and Picasso admired her; Shirley Bassey adored her. It was told she strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah who wore a diamond collar. Later, as one of the most recognisable women in the world, she became a spy for the French resistance, her celebrity working as her cover. She was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for military service. After the war she became increasingly interested in civil rights. In 1963 she spoke at the March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King. All this from a girl born in Missouri to a poor single black woman and a white father she did not know. Formed from a series of conversations with the French journalist Marcel Sauvage over a period of more than twenty years.
Main title:
Fearless and free : a memoir / Josephine Baker ; translated from the French by Anam Zafar and Sophie Lewis ; with an introduction by Ijeoma Oluo.
Author:
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975, authorLewis, Sophie, translatorOluo, Ijeoma, writer of forewordZafar, Anam, translator
Imprint:
London : Vintage Classics, 2025.©2025.
Collation:
xxxiv, 249 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in French as "Memoires de Josephine Baker" by Éditions Phébus, Paris, 2022.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781784878344 (hardback)
Dewey class:
792.8092B/BAK
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2724523