and Jack Warner--scions of a Polish Jewish immigrant family who rose from the humblest of origins to become Hollywood moguls of enormous and lasting influence

Halle Bailey

Always be rendering

When his young nephew arrives

Felicita Sala (Illustrator) - September 18

12 YEARS A SLAVE FILM INDUSTRY and Jack Warner--scions of a12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie In) (Penguin Classics) Illustrated, September 4, 2013 by Solomon Northup (Author), Henry Louis Gates (Editor, Afterword), Ira Berlin (Introduction), Steve McQueen (Foreword). Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D. C., in 1841