Fran Ross was born in 1935 and grew up in Philadelphia. She graduated from high school when she was fifteen-years-old and went onto study Communications, Journalism, and Theatre at Temple University. She moved to New York in 1960 where she worked as a proofreader and journalist. Her book Oreo was originally published in 1974 during the height of the Black Power Movement. She then moved to Los Angeles to write comedy for Richard Pryor. She died in 1985 in New York.
Lançada em 1974, OREO, de Fran Ross, é uma obra absolutamente inovadora. Não por menos, as discussões aqui propostas, sempre com sarcasmo e bom humor, cabem perfeitamente em nosso tempo. Identidade racial e cultural, racismo, feminismo, antissemitismo: todas essas questões aparecem...
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