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= of t + em “ADVANCE INFOEMATION PRAEGER PUBLISHERS, INC. 7 Fourth Avenue, New York, New York 10003 e Telephone: (212) 254-4100 pumeree me Tile: ny Forma: G x 9° Pages: 263 | Publication "ally “Ihe. two S-p. inserts! or more Price) ca pO.95 SCOPE, NATURE, AND CONTENTS: ~ this popular biorraphy or vaul Robeson, the creat black athlete, Singer, actor, linsuirt, and political activist who in the lcvarthy periou in the United States plummeted trom a peak or fame ané popular~ itv to what can only be described as enforced obscurity, will C the ii and his lerend in a warm, readable, but serious book. see is interviewing lifelon* friends and co-workers ot .oneson's, &ultrers, detractors, and son i’aul, Jr., who is making available to her letters aid other materials from the nobeson archives as the orfri- cial piomrapher, Lioyd L. Brown, finishes with them. Her book will be pubiished well in auvance of the Brown book and will have the advantaye or beinr written by a youne black woman with a fresh point of view. .She came to this biography as the result o° covering the nobeson /5th Lirthday celepration ‘or and realiz Wi as W Littie me epi imure == once widly acclaimea, sater so shunned that his name disappeared from bivliographies and prints or hic famous movie performance in Luzene O'Neill's "The imperor Jones’ were de- stroyed ( a patched- tonether version is now playing in U.5. theaters), then lert to obiivion, Todav_ there is new surge of interest in Kobeson, A feneration of whom is a spokesman is collecting his o1d recordins:s (78s mos um prices and re-evaluating the significance or -his experience. Covering the dramatic span of his life as frootbail hero, artist, passionate humanitarian, Communist Sympathizer, outcact and forgotten man, she begins her book with his chilahood in rrinceton, N.J., where his clergyman father, born a slave, raised him after his mother, the descendant of a free black of Revolutionary days, died in a iire when young raul was six, Her book then explores his feats at Rutgers (Phi Betta happa as well as the first black named All-American); > his switch from law school to the concert stare anda his triumph as an actor in Cthello; his development as performer, translator, and popularizer of the folk songs of many nations; his evolution into a ; political" artist; his tours of Lurope, residence in sneland and Russia; his marriate and the other women in his life. ‘he rinal chapter ale will take him to the present or to his possible death.