Nov 14, 2009
An Accidental Autobiography | An Accidental Autobiography
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Brooklyn and Manhattan; Libya, India, Italy, and Morocco
- Principal Characters: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Arnold Horowitz, Jazzman, Her mother, Her father, Mr. Harrison, Anna Harrison, Joshua Harrison
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Love or romance, Interracial relationships, Religion, Mental illness, Jazz music, Libya or Libyans, Respiration
- Locales: Manhattan, NY, Brooklyn, NY, Italy, India, Morocco, Libya
The facts about Barbara Grizzuti Harrison’s life that one can glean from An
Accidental Autobiography are these: She grew up in Brooklyn during the 1930’s and
1940’s; her father, a printer, was an Italian immigrant; her mother, a second- generation
Italian, became a zealous Jehovah’s Witness when Barbara was nine. Barbara became her
mother’s acolyte on Sunday door-to-door visits and served for three years as a housekeeper
in the Jehovah’s Witness headquarters and residence after she graduated from high school.
Escaping her servitude, she moved to the East Village, had...
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