The Family Comes of Age

An Unabridged Selection from With Ossie and Ruby

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By Ruby Dee

By Ossie Davis

Read by Ruby Dee

Read by Ossie Davis

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On Sale
Feb 1, 2006
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781594834929

Ruby Dee

About the Author

Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and civil rights activist. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of “Ruth Younger” in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story, and Do the Right Thing. She was a Grammy, Emmy, Obie and Drama Desk winner. She was also a National Medal of Arts, Kennedy Center Honors and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award recipient. She was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed, until his death in 2005.

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Ossie Davis

About the Author

Ossie Davis was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death in 2005. He and his wife were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame; were awarded the National Medal of Arts, and were recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994.

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