Griffin, Farah Jasmine

Farah Jasmine Griffin is a professor of English and comparative literature and African American Studies at Columbia University, where she has served as director of the Institute for Research in African American studies. She is the author of Who Set You Flowin : The African-American Migration Narrative and If You Can t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday, and has edited several collections of letters and essays. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper s Bazaar, Callaloo, and African American Review, and she is also a frequent commentator on WNPR s New...