Queen of the Blues: A Biography of Dinah Washington

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W. Morrow, 1987 - Biography & Autobiography - 239 pages
A candid portrait of legendary blues singer Dinah Washington, who, despite her successes, was never able to erase her poverty mentality or insecurity, and whose life ended in tragedy as a result. 12 black-and-white photographs.

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Contents

Of Music and Men
11
On Her Own
39
On the Road
61
Copyright

6 other sections not shown

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About the author (1987)

Author Jim Haskins was born in Demopolis, Alabama on September 19, 1941. He received a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1960, a B.S. from Alabama State University in 1962, and a M.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1963. After graduation, he became a special education teacher in a public school in Harlem. His first book, Diary of a Harlem School Teacher, was the result of his experience there. He taught at numerous colleges and universities before becoming an English professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville in 1977. He wrote more than 100 books during his lifetime, ranging from counting books for children to biographies on Rosa Parks, Hank Aaron and Spike Lee. He won numerous awards for his work including the 1976 Coretta Scott King Award for The Story of Stevie Wonder, the 1984 Coretta Scott King Award for Lena Horne, the 1979 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime; and the 1994 Washington Post Children's Book Guide Award. He also won the Carter G. Woodson Award for young adult non-fiction for Black Music in America; The March on Washington; and Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History in 1989, 1994, and 2001, respectively. He died from complications of emphysema on July 6, 2005 at the age of 63.

Bibliographic information

TitleQueen of the Blues: A Biography of Dinah Washington
AuthorJames Haskins
Editionillustrated
PublisherW. Morrow, 1987
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMay 15, 2010
ISBN0688048463, 9780688048464
Length239 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Music
  
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