but just for our purposes here, phyllis is the author on virginia woolf, the biography of josephine baker, and as literary classic parallelize. and edmund is the author among many other books in various forms, wonderful novelist and essayist, the biography of jean genet, and beautifully brief biographies of proust and rimbaud. emily dickinson, hawthorne, and jay, when falcon, john steinbeck and robert foester i do so like to begin with phyllis. what do you see as having drawn you to these particular subjects? >> okay, i like to go back if i may a little earlier, considerably earlier to win nine in grade school even to explain my rather simple notion about what a person writes a biography. when i was in grade school, i think it must have been, i do, seventh, eighth grade, therefore i was what? nine or 10, i don't know about that. i had to write -- 5. >> i had to write what we call a book report about the biography of an admirable woman. and so i went to the library and there were only two biographies of women in the entire library, as far as i could see. one was eleanor roosevelt, and the

the they added josephine baker, song and dance. they had a program that was 2.5 hours long and the program for america ended up being 35 minutes long end was precise and modern. it had new designs and the wrap dress. they played something that had never been heard before. they played al green and very white. it moved the models tremendously and the african american models led the procession in a way that these people had never seen. they yelled bravo and that was denied america was crowned as the fashion later. >> let me go to these african- american models. part of the beauty of the story is that they got a chance to be exposed in this way. where did they come from? i am trying to figure out how they found their way onto the stage and in the creation of this moment that led to this accolade. >> the american budget was not very high. tavis: that answers the question, thank you very much. we have no money, bring in the negros. >> the people that fit the clothes the best and the people that they could afford to take to paris, 12 of t

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