Canada Lee: The Boxer Who Played Banquo
I first learned about Canada Lee (1907-52) from Denise Oswald, my editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. One of the books ahead of mine in the FSG pipeline was Mona Z. Smith's Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee, which Denise was also editing. This was the first biography ever about this major African American […]