Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir

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Imprint: Simon & Schuster (Jul 01, 2002)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
ISBN: 9780743245418

    Description of Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir


    A renowned editor of The New York Times movingly recounts his life, remembers a turbulent childhood as an African American growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, a brother addicted to drugs and violence, and a grandmother who inspired him to reach for the sky. 17,500 first printing.
    Mel Watkins

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