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With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together

Title

With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together / Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Author

Davis, Ossie

Publication

New York : W. Morrow, 1998.
©1998

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Additional Authors

Dee, Ruby

Description

xvi, 476 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"In a joint memoir that celebrates half a century of successful marriage, they look back on the extraordinary careers that earned each a Presidential Medal for Lifetime Achievement."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
Biographies.

Note

Includes index.

Contents

Before We Met -- Ruby Is Born at Seven -- Ossie Is Still a Mistake -- Under One Roof -- The Waycross Years -- From the Fire Escape -- Center High School and Valdosta, 1930-1934 -- Ruby's Harlem -- The Howard Years, 1935-1939 -- Steps Along the Way -- Ossie's Harlem -- Some Men in My Life -- World War Two, 1942-1945 -- Ruby Turning Corners -- Home Is the Soldier -- We Meet -- Jeb: The Play Is the Thing -- The American Negro Theatre: Anna Lucasta -- The Fight Never Ends -- Hookin' Up -- Movies and Complications -- Giant Steps -- Tall Targets -- Connections to the Left -- The World of Sholom Aleichem and Beyond -- The Plot Thickens -- New Work, New Territory -- Big Breakthroughs -- Struggle, Realities, and Art -- Marches, Movements, and Martyrs -- Sex Comes out of the Closet -- In Control, but Still in Crisis -- The Family Comes of Age -- A Teaspoonful of Power -- We, the Family, Become a Company -- Going Through the Fire -- My One Good Nerve -- Now That We Are Elders -- Love, Marriage, and Struggle -- A Bridge to Ourselves.

ISBN

0688153968
9780688153960

LCCN

98035621

OCLC

ocm39456016
39456016
SCSB-470573

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library