His family moved to Los Angeles in 1960 when he was 3, but he’d always heard the talk: “I grew up knowing that there was this relation, a writer, Anatole Broyard, who was the book critic at ...

Her search, naturally, brings her to New Orleans, where she discovers her father's birth certificate, stating that he was born "Anatole Paul Broyard, Jr. (Col.)" at 2524 St. Ann St.

Anatole Broyard was born in 1920, and his family moved to Brooklyn when he was 7. In New Orleans, Creoles were their own group. In New York, they were labeled black.

FARAI CHIDEYA, host: Anatole Broyard was one of the most respected literary critics. The late editor and columnist for the New York Times book review provided a lavish life for his family in New ...

Joyce Johnson, writer: For Broyard to construct a white identity required the ruthless and cowardly jettisoning of his black family. He would later lamely tell his children that their grandmother ...

To do this, Broyard plunges herself into her newfound family, past and present. She travels all over to meet relatives of varying skin hues who regard themselves, unequivocally, as black.

For most of the 1970s and '80s, Anatole Broyard was a staff book critic for the New York Times, writing two or three reviews a week for its daily pages, as opposed to its Sunday book section.

A new family memoir from the daughter of famed literary critic Anatole Broyard bears the subtitle My Father's Hidden Life — A Story of Race and Family Secrets. Bliss Broyard, raised as white in ...

Broyard’s “One Drop” is an examination of one of the most dramatic crossovers of the last 50 years, her father, New York Times literary critic Anatole Broyard.

For Broyard, who was “raised as white in Connecticut,” the discovery that her father, the writer and critic Anatole Broyard, “wasn’t exactly white” raised the question of “how black I ...