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September 9, 1980 (60 years old)
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Gemini
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John Howard Griffin
John Howard Griffin was an American journalist and author from Texas who wrote about racial equality. He is best known for his project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South of 1959 to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line. He first published a series of articles on his experience in Sepia Magazine, which had underwritten the project. He published a fuller account in a book Black Like Me. This was later adapted as a 1964 film of the same name. A 50th anniversary edition of the book was published in 2011 by Wings Press.
BornJune 16, 1920, Dallas, Texas, U.S.
DiedSeptember 09, 1980, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Poitiers
OccupationWriter
Notable credit(s)Black Like Me
Children4

About John Howard Griffin

Memoirist John Howard Griffin was born on June 16, 1920 in Texas, United States (He dies at the age of 60, on September 9, 1980).

Texas-born novelist and journalist who focuses on racial justice issues. He is most known for his memoir Black Like Me, published in 1960, about a year he spent impersonating as an African American man in the American South.

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John Howard Griffin before becoming famous

John Howard Griffin was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1920 is also the year of Monkey (猴) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He served in the United States Army Air Corps in the Pacific theater of World War II after studying French at the University of Poitiers and medicine at the French Ecole de Médecine.

Achievement of John Howard Griffin

The Devil Rides Outside, Land of the High Sky, and Nuni are among his early literary works, all of which were published in the 1950s.

John Howard Griffin's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

John Griffin and pianist Lena Griffin reared him in Dallas, Texas. His marriage to Elizabeth Ann Holland, which lasted from 1953 until his death in 1980, produced four children.

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Griffin's memoir, Black Like Me, was adapted into a film in 1964, starring Movie Actor James Whitmore.

James Whitmore (1921 - 2009) (Movie Actor)
James Whitmore (1921 - 2009)

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John Howard Griffin Income & Net worth

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