People Who Led to My Plays

A magical scrapbook of words, pictures and memories, capturing the life of a middle-class black girl growing up in the Midwest in the 1930s and 40s, aspiring to be a writer.

Adrienne Kennedy here explores the far-ranging influences on her startlingly original plays, from Vincent Van Gogh to Tennessee Williams, Jane Eyre to Blood Wedding, Lena Horne to Richard Wright, Georgia to Ghana.