Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Audiobook

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• “Endlessly fascinating, Miss Anne in Harlem reveals a whole new perspective on the Harlem Renaissance, and Carla Kaplan delivers an essential and absorbing portrait of race and sex in twentieth-century America.”

  — Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove

• “The fact that white women played a pivotal role in creating the Harlem Renaissance was a secret hiding in plain sight, but it took Carla Kaplan’s keen eye, rigorous research, and crystal clear prose to reveal it. A surprising, delightful book.”

  — Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “Carla Kaplan has taken on a dauntingly liminal topic and by force of scholarly rigor and narrative compassion rendered it central to our understanding of an era. Lush, original, and vigorously argued.”

  — Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “In this remarkable work of historical recovery…[Kaplan] resurrects Miss Anne as a cultural figure and explores the messy contradictions of her life…Deeply researched.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Professor Kaplan, a biographer of the writer Zora Neale Hurston, captivatingly illuminates and places in overdue perspective.”

  — New York Times

• “[A] richly researched, thoughtful new book.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Intriguing.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “Kaplan always writes from inside her characters and with a novelist’s sense of scope—and compassion.”

  — New Yorker

• “[Kaplan’s] extensive research has given life to a critical period in black American history—and given credit to the white women who, for various reasons, helped the Harlem Renaissance flourish.”

  — NPR

• “[A] revelatory book…Aside from its significance as cultural history, Miss Anne in Harlem is packed with amazing life stories.”

  — NPR's Fresh Air

• “Carla Kaplan has given us and history a great gift.”

  — New York Journal of Books

• “In her clear-sighted, empathetic assessment of a half-dozen of these women, Carla Kaplan casts a fresh eye over people and relationships too often reduced to stereotypes.”

  — Daily Beast

• “An empathetic and skillful writer, Kaplan…shares the previously untold story of a group of notable white women who embraced black culture—and life—in Harlem in the 1920s and ’30s…Captivating.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Kaplan’s meticulously documented and intrepid history of Miss Anne encompasses a unique vantage on the complexities of race and gender and a dramatic study in paradox.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “A work of meticulous and far-ranging scholarship, Miss Anne in Harlem matches its characters’ shocking and subversive lives with explosive revelations and subtle insights…Kaplan’s haunting narrative forces a rethinking of race and gender.”

  — Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize finalist

• “[An] utterly fascinating and deeply insightful account…This fine book takes the Misses Anne seriously and goes further, to reveal the workings of interracial networks in one of the most important cultural phenomena in American history.”

  — Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People