Bonnie Greer

Award-winning playwright, author, and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny, and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who set out to unmake what she'd been born and brought up to be....

A Black American woman travels through the United States and Europe in search of her lost father. In the letters she writes to him she remembers her strict Catholic childhood in Chicago, her move to bohemian New York, and her bewilderment at growing up....

Langston Hughes was a man far ahead of his time, but his actions were often unpredictable and contradictory. Rather than ignoring or excusing these contradictions, Bonnie Greer confronts them, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man caught up in strange and contradictory times....

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, London-based author and playwright Bonnie Greer seeks to demonstrate that Barack Obama's presidency is what she calls a 'South Side Presidency'....