What Happened, Miss Simone?

Hardcover
309 pgs.
Crown Archetype, Publ.
Illustrated

Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary "What Happened, Miss Simone?", an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. Biographer Alan Light has drawn from a trove of rare archival footage, audio recordings, and interviews, as well as Simone's remarkable private diaries, this nuanced examination of Nina Simone's life that highlights her musical inventiveness and unwavering quest for equality, while laying bare the personal demons that plagued her from the time of her childhood in North Carolina to her self-imposed exile in Liberia and France later in life.