Barbara Chase-Riboud

1939 -

foto: Wikimedia Commons

rörelse: Black Arts Movement

genre: abstrakt konst, fiktion, poesi

medborgare i: USA, Frankrike

modersmål: engelska

talade, skrivna eller tecknade språk: engelska

utbildad vid: University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia High School for Girls, American Academy in Rome, Yale School of Architecture

sysselsättning: skribent, poet, skulptör, romanförfattare, tecknare, målare, konsthistoriker

utmärkelse: riddare av Arts et Lettres-orden, Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, Prix Aware, riddare av Hederslegionen, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

student till: Josef Albers, Louis Kahn

Barbara Chase-Riboud (born June 26, 1939) is an American visual artist and sculptor, novelist, and poet. After becoming established as a sculptor and poet, Chase-Riboud gained widespread recognition as an author for her novel Sally Hemings (1979). It earned the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in Fiction, and became an international success. Chase-Riboud's novel about Sally Hemings generated discussion about the likely relationship between the young enslaved woman and her master, Thomas Jefferson, who became president of the United States. Mainline historians rejected Chase-Riboud's portrayal and persuaded CBS not to produce a planned TV mini-series adapted from the novel. Following DNA analysis of descendants in 1998, the Jefferson-Hemings relationship is widely accepted by historians as fact, including those who had objected before. Källa: Wikipedia (en)