A Parallel Life

Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who set out to unmake what she'd been born and brought up to be: 'a proper girl' - a precious definition in a segregate and racist America where black life was deemed only three-fifths of white life ... and the life of a black woman even less.

Bonnie Greer OBE FRSL is an American-British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster, who has lived in the UK since 1986. She has won the Verity Bargate award for best play, and her memoir, Parallel Life, is published by Arcadia Books. She was formerly director of the Talawa Theatre Company and has served on the boards of the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the London Film School. In 2022, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.