Introduction
As part of my research project on Taylor and Rose Gordon, I’ve set up this blog to report on my progress on the project and as a means of staying in touch with the many people who have expressed interest in my biography of the Gordons over the past few years. I hope that the blog not only will be informative for those of you who are interested in the story of the Gordon family but will also provide a way of communicating back to me any suggestions, insights, thoughts, you might have about the project.
About me:
Michael K. Johnson (PhD, University of Kansas) is an associate professor of English at the University of Maine-Farmington, where he teaches courses in American and African American literature, multicultural and ethnic literatures, and literature and film. His primary research interest is the portrayal of African Americans in the literature and cinema of the American West, which is the focus of his book, Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002). Other publications include articles in African American Review, Literature/Film Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Western American Literature. His current project is a book-length biography of Harlem Renaissance–era singer Taylor Gordon and his sister Rose Gordon
Nancy O'Malley said,
June 30, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Did any of the Gordon siblings have children? My research suggests (so far) that none of them married or had children. Is this correct? Thank you.