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Fearless and Free: A Memoir

By (author) Josephine Baker, Translated by Anam Zafar, Translated by Sophie Lewis

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Immerse yourself in joy and glamour: this is the dazzling Josephine Baker in her own words. â€˜She was a beacon of joy and fellowship and her smileâ€¦reaches out to us across the yearsâ€™ Financial Times â€˜A delightful, nourishing readâ€™ Guardian â€˜Josephine Baker certainly shook things up. This memoir demonstrates - vividly - the pleasure she took in doing itâ€™ Washington Post Funny, candid and unconventional: the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker tells her own story in this enchanting memoir. Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and effervescence on stage. She became an icon. Hemingway, Cocteau and Picasso admired her; Shirley Bassey adored her. It was said she strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah who wore a diamond collar. Later, as one of the most recognisable women in the world, she became a spy for the French resistance, her celebrity working as her cover. She was awarded the LÃ©gion dâ€™honneur for military service. After the war she became increasingly interested in civil rights, and in 1963 she spoke at the March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King. All this from a girl of mixed heritage, born in Missouri to a poor mother and a father she did not know. Formed from a series of conversations with the French journalist Marcel Sauvage over a period of more than twenty years, and now translated into English for the first time, this gorgeous book offers an insight into one of the most beguiling figures of the twentieth century. â€˜The most sensational woman anyone ever sawâ€™ Ernest Hemingway WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IJEOMA OLUO TRANSLATED BY ANAM ZAFAR AND SOPHIE LEWIS

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