The HistoryMakers video oral history with Alice Randall.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 6 min., 54 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

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Author Alice Randall was born Mari-Alice Randall on May 4, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan. At Harvard University, Randall earned her B.A. degree in English and American literature in 1981. She moved to Nashville and wrote a number one country hit, XXX's and OOO's: An American Girl and became the first African American woman to have a number one country hit. Randall's first novel The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation and parody of Gone with the Wind, became a New York Times bestseller. Randall's second novel, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, was named as one of the Washington Post's "Best fiction of 2004." Randall wrote a screenplay for CBS based on her song XXX's and OOO's: An American Girl in 1994, and contributed to screenplay adaptations of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Brer Rabbit, and Parting the Waters. Married to attorney David Ewing, she was a writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Larry Crowe, interviewer.