Singer (31-Oct-1896 — 1-Sep-1977)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Donald Bogle. Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters. Harper Collins. 2011. 624pp.

Stephen Bourne. Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather. Scarecrow Press. 2007. 146pp.

Arnold Dobrin. Voices of Joy, Voices of Freedom: Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Lena Horne. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. 1972. 127pp.

Twila Knaack. Ethel Waters: I Touched a Sparrow. Word Books. 1978. 128pp.

Ethel Waters; with Charles Samuels. His Eye is on the Sparrow. Doubleday. 1951. 278pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (p.731)

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.740)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.1100)

9. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.1475)

10. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood (p.451)

11. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.774)

12. International Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.487)

13. Twentieth Century Dictionary of Christian Biography (p.417)

14. The Encyclopedia of Television (vol.3, p.1806)

15. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.5, p.86)

16. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.332)

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