Singer, Actor (30-Jun-1917 — 9-May-2010)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Gail Lumet Buckley. The Hornes: An American Family. Alfred A. Knopf. 1986. 262pp.

James Gavin. Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. Simon and Schuster. 2009. 598pp.

Jim Haskins; with Kathleen Benson. Lena: A Personal and Professional Biography of Lena Horne. Anova Books. 1986. 228pp.

Lena Horne; with Richard Schickel. Lena. Doubleday. 1965. 300pp.

Brett Howard. Lena. Holloway House. 1981. 218pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.668)

7. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (p.307)

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.322)

9. Quinlan's Illustrated Registry of Film Stars (p.228)

10. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.263)

11. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.240)

12. Celebrity Register 4th Issue (p.237)

13. Celebrity Register 5th Issue (p.272)

14. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.348)

15. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.2, p.449)

16. Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.265)

17. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.324)

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