Conversation with Alumna, Author, and Activist Bliss Broyard '84
Date: Wednesday, November 11 Time: 7:00-8:00 pm
Join us for a conversation with Bliss Broyard ’84 and GFA's Director of Equity and Inclusion, Shanelle Henry, about Bliss's experience attending GFA with the perspective she's gained from her father’s story.
Bliss Broyard '84 is the author of the bestselling story collection, My Father, Dancing, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and the award-winning memoir, One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets, which was named the best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune and was a finalist for the Essence Literary Prize. One Drop recounts how her father, the New York Times critic Anatole Broyard, who was born to mixed-race Creoles from New Orleans, moved to Connecticut and started passing for white shortly before her older brother was born. Bliss discovered her father's — and her own —Black ancestry at age 23 when he died. One Drop recounts her efforts to meet the family and learn the history that was kept from her. Her stories and essays have been anthologized in It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (to benefit the ACLU), Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Art of the Essay, and others. She has written for New York Magazine, The New York Times, NewYorker.com, The Guardian, The Believer, Conde Nast Traveler, Elle, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children and is active in New York City's school integration movement.
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