About the Author

Allan Keiler is a professor emeritus of music at Brandeis University.

Reviews

"Keiler gives Marian Anderson the homage she deserves. It is a quietly amazing story."--Anthony Heilbut, New York Times Book Review

"An absorbing, occasionally heart-stopping read that insightfully describes the social, religious, and political forces that formed the woman behind the myth."--Judith Willoughby, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Good biographies of vocalists are rare. . . . Keiler has examined [Anderson's] life in painstaking detail, with keen intelligence and a scrupulous fairness."--Tim Page, Washington Post

"Keiler gives Marian Anderson the homage she deserves. It is a quietly amazing story."--Anthony Heilbut, New York Times Book Review
"An absorbing, occasionally heart-stopping read that insightfully describes the social, religious, and political forces that formed the woman behind the myth."--Judith Willoughby, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Good biographies of vocalists are rare. . . . Keiler has examined [Anderson's] life in painstaking detail, with keen intelligence and a scrupulous fairness."--Tim Page, Washington Post

Brandeis music professor Keiler offers an assessment of the great contralto, the first African American soloist at the Metropolitan Opera. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.