Fearless and free : a memoir
Baker, Josephine, 1906-19752026
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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. Later, as one of the most recognisable women in the world, she became a spy for the French resistance and was awarded the Légion d'honneur for military service. After the war she became a civil rights activist, and in 1963 she spoke at the March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King. All this from a girl of mixed heritage, born in Missouri to a poor mother and a father she did not know.
Main title:
Fearless and free : a memoir / Josephine Baker ; translated by Anam Zafar, Sophie Lewis.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage Classics, 2026.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.This translation originally published: 2025.
ISBN:
9781784878351 (pbk)
Dewey class:
792.8092
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
4227301