Dancing in the Dark

A fictional re-creation chronicles the life and times of Bert Williams, the first black entertainer in the United States to achieve success and a man who dons blackface to become a headliner in the Ziegfeld Follies, in a historical novel about the tragedies of race and identity, the perils of self-invention, and the toll of his success on his personal life. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.