Tag: Harryette Mullen

  • Oreo: A Comeback Story On The Media WNYC FM New York, New York Friday, 2015-07-17 Mythili Rao, Host and Producer Guests: Mat Johnson, Harryette Mullen, Mark Anthony Neal and Danzy Senna In 1974, Fran Ross published her first and only novel, “Oreo.” The satirical tale of a biracial teenager’s Theseus-style quest to find her father…

  • A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City

  • Oreo Northeastern University Press (now University Press of New England) 2000 (Originially published in 1974.) 224 pages 6 x 9″ Fran Ross Forward by Harryette Mullen This uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974. Born to a Jewish…