I Was a White Slave in Harlem

By Margo Howard-Howard

Book Overview

Margo Howard-Howard details her sometimes intimate, sometimes violent encounters with James Dean, Andy Warhol, Jackie Curtis, Truman Capote, Tallulah Bankhead, Queen Elizabeth II and many other personalities. As described here, they give a glimpse of the wild career of New York's premier drag queen. Funny, outrageous, and compassionate, Margo Howard-Howard thrived in the world Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney only dream about.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094142314X
• ISBN13: 9780941423144
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.

Customer Reviews

fascinating and brilliant!

This is a most fascinating account of a brilliant historian and one of the most original people to have walked this way..... It's almost too bizarre to be true, and maybe some of it isn't true! But that does not matter so much as it is such a fun, wild ride -- a ride that you don't want to end. I hear it might be a movie soon. Now that would be something!

A brilliant drag queen memoir

Margot Howard Howard's book is the best drag queen autobiography I know -- hilarious, marvelously detailed, and finally delightfully slippery. Who is this creature, and what about her could we ever be certain of? Ms Howard Howard demonstrates that identity is often found in performance, in the playing out of oneself,in costume and tale-telling and writing oneself LARGE. All aficionados of drag, all connoisseurs of the further reaches of the memoir, and all theorists of identity & truth-telling will love this book.