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Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, CUNY, Martin Duberman is the author of some two dozen books, including Stonewall, Cures, Paul Robeson, Haymarket, and Jews Queers Germans. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award, three Lambda Literary Awards, a special award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters for his contributions to literature, the 2007 lifetime achievement award from the American Historical Association, and the Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement . He has been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and has received honorary degrees from Amherst College and Columbia University. He lives in New York.
An energetic, fun, and kvetchy take-no-prisoners memoir of the American theater, academic ironies, and gay activist warfare. Duberman is a conflicted and talented man reaching high and low for an elusive resolution to great expectations that his prodigious accomplishments never satisfy. Hustlers, cocaine, Paul Robeson, and finally the embrace of love make this a fascinating and rollicking read. --Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show Reaching Ninety is a wonderful account of the life of a public intellectual whose devotion to some of the most important issues of his time has been nothing less than admirable. --Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments and Taking a Long Look
