Deep Are the Roots: Memoirs of a Black Expatriate

by Gordon Heath

In these pages we meet a man, meet him as a child, an actor in training, an actor in performance. We meet a black man born in the United States in 1918 who fashioned a life for himself that kept him mostly abroad, mostly in Paris. Gordon Heath can be counted among such distinguished black expatriates as Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin. Their names have been written larger than his in the record books, but with the publication of his memoirs Gordon Heath moves from footnote status to deserved inclusion in the text itself.

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 1992

Reviews

[Damon]

This is an excellent memoir about a long forgotten talented and sexy legend. I had the opportunity to meet him in 1969 while I was a student at there Boston Conservatory of Music.

[Jaivian Fowler]

Gordon Heath has such a vulnerable and realistic approach to writing. 5/5 stars.