Audiobooks Read By Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee (1922–2014) was a multi-award-winning actress, playwright, screenwriter, and activist. During her seven-decade career, she won a Grammy, Emmy, Obie, and Drama Desk award and was nominated for an Academy Award. She was also the recipient of a National Medal of Arts, a Kennedy Center Honor, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of Ruth Younger in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun, but she also had roles in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever. She was also known for her civic work with husband Ossie Davis. She also wrote plays, fiction, and a column in New York’s Amsterdam News. Born in Cleveland, she worked initially with the American Negro Theater in Harlem, where she grew up.

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Extended Sample Inspired By … The Bible Experience Audio Bible - Today's New International Version, TNIV: Old Testament by Zondervan
Extended Sample X MINUS ONE: SEASON TWO by Robert A. Heinlein
Extended Sample Maggie's American Dream by James P. Comer
Extended Sample With Ossie and Ruby (abridged) by Ossie Davis
Extended Sample Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston
Extended Sample Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Extended Sample Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
Extended Sample The Bluest Eye (abridged) by Toni Morrison
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