Specialty Items
Autographed Book - "Having Our Say" by Amy Hill Hearth
- Item Number
- 102
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 16 USD to deleteaccount12
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
This hardcover edition of "Having Our Say" will be autographed by best-selling author, Amy Hill Hearth, with a personal inscription to the winning bidder.
The story behind HAVING OUR SAY:
Summer 1991: Amy Hill Hearth, a reporter on assignment to The New York Times, hears about the sisters and arranges to meet them. The sisters, then-unknown and living quietly in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., agree to let Amy interview them.
September 22, 1991: Amy's feature on the Delany sisters is published in The New York Times. Within days, a book publisher contacts Amy and asks if she will expand her story into a full-length book.
Fall 1991 - Spring 1993: Amy works with the Delany sisters to create the book, an oral history which the threesome decide to call, HAVING OUR SAY.
September 19, 1993: HAVING OUR SAY is published by Kodansha America in New York on Sadie Delany's 104th birthday.
Fall 1993: The book becomes a New York Times bestseller -- for a total of 105 weeks! The sisters enjoy the notoriety.
April 1995: Emily Mann, artistic director of the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., adapts Amy's book to the stage. The play adaptation, also called HAVING OUR SAY, debuts at the Booth Theater on Broadway in New York City. Amy takes the sisters to see the play on Mother's Day.
April 1999: The telefilm adaptation of HAVING OUR SAY airs on CBS, starring Ruby Dee, Diahann Carroll, and Amy Madigan.
Present-day: The book has been added to the curriculum at high schools and colleges across the U.S. and overseas. Fifteen years after its publication, it is considered a classic of the oral history genre.
Item Special Note
Winning bidder to provide name for personalization of autograph.
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