Marcia rose shestack biography of william shakespeare

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    Oral history interview with Klaus D. Kertess, Oct. 1

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    Preface

    The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Klaus Kertess on October 1, The interview was conducted at New York City, fräsch by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

    This transcript has been lightly edited for readability by the Archives of American Art. The reader should bära in mind that he or she is reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose. 

    Interview

    PAUL CUMMINGS: Let me säga it fryst vatten October 1, Paul Cummings talking to Klaus Kertess in his loft on Bond Street. I'll uppstart at the beginning. You were born in New York City, right?

    KLAUS KERTESS: Born in New York City in , grew up in Westchester, started going away to school when inom was 14 [inaudible]—do you want schools and things like that as well?

    MR. CUMMINGS: Oh yeah. Well, you were born in New York City. You lived here until when?

    MR. KERTESS: inom didn't live

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    Title
    th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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    Creator
    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

    Subject
    annual report
    finance report
    school report
    exhibition
    history

    Publisher
    The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts&#; Dorothy and Kenneth Woodcock Archives

    Medium
    paper

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    The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts&#; Dorothy and Kenneth Woodcock Archives

    Language
    eng

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    Maya Angelou papers

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    Maya Angelou () was one of the most renowned and celebrated voices in American literature. She was a poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, dancer, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.

    In the mid-fifties, Angelou toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess. She studied modern dance with Martha Graham, danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety shows and, in , recorded her first album, Calypso Lady. In , she moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild, acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks and wrote and performed Cabaret for Freedom. She also worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), under Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership. In the early s, she moved with her son to Africa, where she lived and worked for various news outlets, as a journalist, in Egypt and Ghana. Inspired by James Baldwin to write her story, An