Author Bliss Broyard will read from and discuss her memoir, “One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets,” on April 16 at 8 p

Memoir Writer To Speak at Yale About Race and Identity

New Haven, Conn. — Author Bliss Broyard will read from and discuss her memoir, “One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets,” on April 16 at 8 p.m. in the Master’s Residence at Branford College, 80 High St.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Yale College series of Francis Conversations with Writers and Editors.

In “One Drop,” Broyard describes her search for her mixed-race identity. Her father was Anatole Broyard, the noted New York Times book critic. Shortly before he died of cancer, he told his children that he had a secret he had never revealed. He was unwilling to tell them what it was, but they learned from their mother that he—and, therefore, they—were part black. He had concealed his racial heritage and kept his children from his two sisters, who lived as African American

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