"[105] Playing at the Glastonbury Festival in June, Baez said during the introduction of a song that one reason she likes Obama is because he reminds her of another old friend of hers: Martin Luther King Jr.[106], Although a highly political figure throughout most of her career, Baez had never publicly endorsed a major political party candidate prior to Obama. On October 1, 2005, she performed at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. She later returned for another concert in 1996. [121][122] Baez implied when speaking about the connection to "Diamonds and Rust" that "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" is, at least in part, a metaphor for Dylan's view of his relationship with her. After releasing her debut album in 1960, she became known for. The Baez family converted to Quakerism during Joan's early childhood, and she has continued to identify with the tradition, particularly in her commitment to pacifism and social issues. Abbe A. Debolt, James S. Baugess The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture 1440801029 Page 48 "She received the nickname "Madonna" because of the soulful clarity of her soprano voice, long hair, and natural beauty. Thats sort of what the film was about. [103], On May 23, 2006, Baez once again joined Julia Butterfly Hill, this time in a "tree sit" in a giant tree on the site of the South Central Farm in a poor neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California. The references to Baez in Dylan's songs are far less clear. ", Terrie M. Rooney Newsmakers 1998: The People Behind Today's Headlines 0787612308 1999 Page 17 "With her pure, three-octave soprano voice, her long hair and natural good looks, and her unpretentious presence, she came to earn the nickname "Madonna" because she represented the "Earth Mother" for the 1960s generation.". Shes the first ambitious human being in my family! Also in February 2007, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. [40], Highly visible in civil-rights marches, Baez became more vocal about her disagreement with the Vietnam War. 202013Joan Baez Net Worth: Joan Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter and musician who has a net worth of $11 million. I dont know what the trigger is to make it actually happen. Baez first met Dylan in April 1961 at Gerde's Folk City in New York City's Greenwich Village. This is a comprehensive sheet-music book of 66 songs comprising the repertory of folksinger Joan Baez. During Baez's next visit to Prague, in April 2007, the two met again when she performed in front of a sold-out house at Prague's Lucerna Hall, a building erected by Havel's grandfather. I asked a voice coach how will I know when to quit and he said: your voice will tell you. And it really did. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. She was born in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, and was the daughter of Myrtle Marguerite (McKee) and William Andrew Anderson. Rock hall of famer Joan Baez's granddaughter didn't know her grandma U.S in News 215 subscribers Subscribe 17 Share 2.5K views 5 years ago was famous until she got backstage at Taylor Swift. She is from USA. Yes, flower arrangements are fulfilled and delivered by local florists from New Bedford. Her participation included versions of "Let Us Break Bread Together" and "Amazing Grace". [12], Baez was born on Staten Island, New York, on January 9, 1941. Baez was presented with the first award in recognition of her human rights work with Amnesty International and beyond, and the inspiration she has given activists around the world. He was the loving husband of Jahaira Baez. [119] Dylan and Baez toured together again in 1984 along with Carlos Santana. I cant believe that I did all that. My granddaughter had no clue who I was," Baez said to laughs, "until I took her backstage at a Taylor Swift concert, where she got her selfie, her autograph, her t-shirt and a newfound respect for her grandmother. I havent had concerts or anything like that. In February 2007, Proper Records reissued her live album Ring Them Bells (1995), which featured duets with artists ranging from Dar Williams and Mimi Faria to the Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter. [130][131], Baez dated Apple Computer cofounder Steve Jobs during the early 1980s. Fountain of Sorrow 9. Before getting on the phone with you now, I was thinking that in some respects it feels, if youll forgive the expression, a great time for protest singers. When I got it right. Shes in school in Miami, where shes just decided she wants to be a lawyer so she can study everything you need to know for show business and copyrights. Can I ask: what did you think when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature? [40] The performance generated substantial praise for the "barefoot Madonna" with the otherworldly voice, and it was this appearance that led to Baez signing with Vanguard Records the following year,[41] although Columbia Records tried to sign her first. Baez was born on Staten Island, New York, on January 9, 1941. Her grandfather, the Reverend Alberto Baez, left the Catholic Church to become a Methodist minister and moved to the U.S. when her father was two years old. Havel was a great admirer of both Baez and her work. She was paid ten dollars. Later in 1968, Baez published her first memoir, Daybreak (by Dial Press). After releasing her debut album Joan Baez in 1960, she became known for topical songs promoting social justice, civil rights and pacifism. She also performed in clubs and attended Boston University for about six weeks. Joan Baez reflects on her 'final' tour, her storied career and . It was produced and directed by Mary Wharton. But her idols are dark, all of their writings are about bleeding out on the highway, theyre not particularly political beyond the dorm room. The three sang solos and duets and a family friend designed the album cover, which was released on Veritas Records that same year as Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square. Joan Baez's income source is mostly from being a successful Soundtrack. It included the song "Cucurrucuc paloma". The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. She was a frequent participant in anti-war marches and rallies, including: There were many others, culminating in Phil Ochs's The War Is Over celebration in New York City in May 1975. Joan Baez was born in 1941 in New York City, New York to parents Albert Vinicio and Joan Bridge Baez. Besides that, she makes in the range of $25k to $126k as a songwriter. It may have gotten more difficult for me, but it was like a sound that I liked. On March 18, 2011, Baez was honored by Amnesty International at its 50th Anniversary Annual General Meeting in San Francisco. She played at Woodstock, marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma and has lent her voice in support of numerous anti-war, environmentalist and LGBTQ+ causes. I did some of those sitting down in the kitchen things during COVID. She celebrated her 77th birthday in 2020. In a lot of abuse cases, the abuser doesnt remember doing it. However, after Obama was elected, she expressed that she would likely never do so again, saying in a 2013 interview in The Huffington Post that "In some ways I'm disappointed, but in some ways it was silly to expect more. Her father, Albert Baez (1912-2007), was born in Puebla, Mexico, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his father preached toand advocated for . Her recording of the song "Birmingham Sunday" (1964), written by her brother-in-law, Richard Faria, was used in the opening of 4 Little Girls (1997), Spike Lee's documentary film about the four young victims killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. I think that the raw materials are there and then whatever happens happens. Redferns And when asked if she's still in contact with the 81-year-old icon, Baez said, "Um, no." Known. Baez's acclaimed songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Thats how it started being so honest. If anyone can navigate the contaminated waters of Washington, lift up the poor, and appeal to the rich to share their wealth, it is Sen. Barack Obama. Singer/Songwriter/Musician | Activist | Artist In 1987, Baez's second autobiography, called And a Voice to Sing With, was published and became a New York Times bestseller. And that was a big part of why I decided it was time to quit. Funding Feminism - Joan Marie Johnson 2017-08-04 Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a . "Many years ago, I was. Joan Baez, 1967 Pop Chronicles interview. Fluent in Spanish and English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She dedicated the song "Joe Hill" to the people of Iran during her concert at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine on July 31, 2009. Since she exploded on the folk scene first with gigs at the Club 47 outside Boston, then on stage at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival Joan Baez has been an iconic figure in American music and, thanks to her tireless activism, in American politics as well. [61], On August 2, 2009, Baez played at the 50th Newport Folk Festival, which also marked the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough performance at the first festival. ", Rock Hall: ELO's Jeff Lynne pays tribute to Chuck Berry. I began to feel that this is what it must be like to be whole. My desire to immerse myself in other peoples struggles is another gift and thats what I did with my music. The only brilliant song I ever wrote: Diamonds and Rust. [104], Throughout most of her career, Baez remained apprehensive about involving herself in party politics. Im going to refer to my granddaughter again. Karen OConnor: And as filmmakers, it changed everything because we had a trove of original first material. When she was ten years old, she, along with her family, moved to Baghdad, Iraq for a year because of her father's job. I think we have to look for what will be next, because that will never be recaptured. [71] Baez again sang "We Shall Overcome" in Sproul Plaza during the mid-1960s Free Speech Movement demonstrations at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, and at many other rallies and protests.[72]. When designing the poster for the performance, Baez considered changing her performing name to either Rachel Sandperl, the surname of her longtime mentor Ira Sandperl, or Maria from the song "They Call the Wind Maria". [74], In November 2017 as part of a release of documents from the National Archives that were supposed to relate to the assassination of John F. Kennedy,[75] a 1968 FBI report alleged that Baez was involved in the 1960s in an intimate affair with Dr. Martin Luther King, an accusation described by history professor Clayborne Carson, the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute and a Stanford University, as "part of a smear campaign" against King.[76]. Was it at the start of your final tour? This is the first time, in the movie, that youve talked publicly about your trauma, about the childhood abuse you suffered. I mean, theres still no We Will Overcome being written, theres still no Blowin in The Wind. Well, maybe they are, but where do you put them? Baez wrote and composed at least three songs that were specifically about Dylan. All Rights Reserved. Her second release, Joan Baez, Vol. His visitation will be held Tuesday, December 27, 2022 from 2-6 PM in the Saunders-Dwyer Home for Funerals, 495 Park St., New Bedford. ALEXANDER brian. Gracias a la Vida (1974) (the title song written and first performed by Chilean folk singer Violeta Parra) followed and was a success in both the U.S. and Latin America. After Gulf Winds (1976), an album of entirely self-composed songs and From Every Stage (1976), a live album that had Baez performing songs "from every stage" of her career, Baez again parted ways with a record label when she moved to CBS Records for Blowin' Away (1977) and Honest Lullaby (1979). The two formed a close bond upon their release and Baez moved into his draft-resistance commune in the hills above Stanford, California. The audience consisted of her parents, her sister Mimi, her boyfriend, and a few friends, resulting in a total of eight patrons. Baez discussed her relationship with Dylan in Martin Scorsese's documentary film No Direction Home (2005), and in the PBS American Masters biography of Baez, How Sweet the Sound (2009). So, no. [57][58] On June 29, 2008, Baez performed on the acoustic stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Glastonbury, UK,[59] playing out the final set to a packed audience. [132] A number of sources have stated that Jobsthen in his mid twentieshad considered asking Baez to marry him, except that her age at the time (early 40s) made the possibility of their having children unlikely. Her singing (unwound) like a spool of satin. In October 1967, Baez, her mother and nearly 70 other women were arrested at the Oakland, California, Armed Forces Induction Center for blocking its doorways to prevent entrance by young inductees, and in support of young men who refused military induction. Joan Baez/5 (1964) There's a strange, theremin-like purity to Baez's singing voice in the traditional songs of her 1960 self-titled album that has led many critics to name it the best of her . [27], Baez spent much of her formative youth living in the San Francisco Bay area,[28] where she graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1958. [89][90] She had previously performed the same song at San Quentin at the 1992 vigil protesting the execution of Robert Alton Harris, the first man to be executed in California after the death penalty was reinstated. judy collins granddaughterthe hardy family acrobats 26th February 2023 / in was forest whitaker in batteries not included / by / in was forest whitaker in batteries not included / by The Institute for the Study of Nonviolence would later branch into the Resource Center for Nonviolence. In 1961, a 19-year-old named Bobby Zimmerman showed up in New York, gave himself a new . "Let us together heal and erasebrutality, and make compassion a priority," she said. Every little tape I sent them from the road. Baez had two sisters, Pauline Thalia Baez Bryan (19382016), also known as Pauline Marden, and Margarita Mimi Baez Faria (19452001), who was better known as Mimi Faria. Phoebe Bridgers 22K22K Share After the wedding, Baez and Harris moved into a home in the Los Altos Hills on 10 acres (4.0 hectares) of land called Struggle Mountain, part of a commune, where they tended gardens. It moved me for half a century and millions of people ever since. Baez herself has suggested that she was the subject of both "Visions of Johanna" and "Mama, You Been on My Mind", although the latter was more likely about his relationship with Suze Rotolo. She celebrates her birthday on the 9th of January. fechar. She was critical of Vietnam's government and organized the May 30, 1979, publication of a full-page advertisement (published in four major U.S. newspapers)[85] in which the government was described as having created a nightmare. The 1960s folk legend, 76, told the funny story Friday during a lively Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech, during which she suggested much of today's youth may not have been familiar with. Top 10 Best Joan Baez Songs 10. Now is the time I should stop? [93] Later that same year, she participated in memorial marches for the assassinated San Francisco city supervisor, Harvey Milk, who was openly gay. And I cant believe I was so true to myself at such a young age. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. Well, Joan Baez's age is 82 years old as of today's date 1st March 2023 having been born on 9 January 1941. Over the course of the war, many young men . Boom. During this period in late 1971, she reunited with composer Peter Schickele to record two tracks, "Rejoice in the Sun" and "Silent Running" for the science-fiction film Silent Running. I mean, I made a couple of false starts stopping. In 1961, she was hailed as the "Queen of Folk". Shortly after, Baez was joined by Indigo Girls andMary Chapin Carpenter to perform a cover of Woody Guthrie'sprotest song Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos). Emmylou Harris is a singer, songwriter, and musician. One thing that I found quite surprising but also quite impressive, is how forgiving you seem of your parents after what they did to you. And we just couldnt. She learned four chords, which enabled her to play rhythm and blues, the music she was listening to at the time. This song was based on the Pakistani army crackdown on unarmed sleeping Bengali students at Dhaka University on March 25, 1971, which ignited the prolonged nine-month Bangladesh Liberation War. [52] The song was later entitled "The Song of Bangladesh" and released in a 1972 album from Chandos Music.[53]. "Together, let us build a great bridge, a beautiful bridge, to once again welcome the tired and the poor. When it comes to artists speaking up, I mean, do you think that protest songs can still have the impact now that they did in the 60s and 70s in terms of galvanizing a movement and enacting real change? We were able to represent these kinds of history-making moments and to hear what Joan was experiencing, whether it was with the March on Washington or the Montgomery March, or whatever it might be. "My 14-year-old granddaughter got in touch and said she and her classmates were going to organise a walk-out in their classroom and asked if I had any advice. But he gets genius licence for that, because he was somebody who changed the world."[134]. There But For Fortune 7. Jack, her fey granddaughter Nemain, and the young apprentice Hob soon . Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, "Joan Baez: Nonviolence, Folk Music, and Spirituality", "The song Joan Baez wrote about her breakup with Bob Dylan", "Noted scientist was father of Joan Baez and Mimi Farina", Clergy letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR Personal File, "Anecdotes about the Early Days of X-Ray Optics", "Resolving Power in Diffraction Microscopy with Special Reference to X-Rays", "Duke forced on defensive over wind turbines", "Obituary: Joan Bridge Baez, anti-war activist", "Q&A: Joan Baez on religion, the Occupy movement and her rare T.O. But the 76-year-old singer-songwriter knows full well that. Student Activism materials. [70]. Baez found herself without an American label for the release of Live Europe 83 (1984), which was released in Europe and Canada but not released commercially in the U.S. She did not have an American release until the album Recently (1987) on Gold Castle Records. As it says in the film, I wish we had taken care of my dad. Summertime covered by Janis Joplin (original by George Gershwin song) Piece of My Heart, in my opinion, was another one she made even better. [16][17][18] Joan's cousin, John C. Baez, is a mathematical physicist. [94], In the 1990s, she appeared with her friend Janis Ian at a benefit for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a gay lobbying organization, and performed at the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March. That same year, she traveled to the Middle East to visit with and sing songs of peace for Israel and the Palestinians. Finally, if you had a single song, one of your own or one of your many interpretations, which would you most want to be remembered for? A few years later, in 1957, Baez bought her first Gibson acoustic guitar. Was there a point when you thought: Im no longer the singer I once was. And everybody gets so insulted and everybodys surprised. "I'maware that I'm speaking to many young people who, without this induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, would have no clue who I am. Just enjoy it. Her true professional career began at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. On Old-world Highways - Thomas Dowler Murphy 1914 Woodstock: 50th Anniversary Edition - Mike Evans 2019-05-07 . One of her very earliest public performances was at a retreat in Saratoga, California, for a youth group from Temple Beth Jacob, a Redwood City, California, Jewish congregation. Half spoken word poem and half tape-recorded sounds, the song documented Baez's visit to Hanoi, North Vietnam, in December 1972 during which she and her traveling companions survived the 11-day-long Christmas Bombings campaign over Hanoi and Haiphong. You mentioned your voice, and I think most of your fans associate you with that early, I dont know, angelic soprano you had when you erupted on the stage. Presently, Baez is a resident of Woodside, California, where she lived with her mother until the latter's death in 2013. However, on February 3, 2008, Baez wrote a letter to the editor at the San Francisco Chronicle endorsing Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. But in the end. Diamonds & Rust More Music Lists Top 10 Best Joan Baez Songs 10. Maybe, what we need is an answer. People didnt know, but I didnt know, I didnt know until I was 50. Beginning in 2001, Baez has had several successful long-term engagements as a lead character at San Francisco's Teatro ZinZanni. There are people who will say: oh yeah, but youll go back on stage, everybody does. I just know thats not true. F+W Publications Inc., 2007. I was so innocent of it all."[48]. But as I delved, you know, into the depths of my issues, I got healthier and healthier. Baez's distinctive vocal style and political activism had a significant impact on American popular music. I know that at some point. The film, which has its world premiere in the Panorama Documentary section of the Berlin International Film Festival, and is being sold worldwide by Submarine, is a deep dive into Baezs private life, the parts she has kept hidden from view. It covers a lot of ground, but Id be interested to know why you wanted to take part in it and tell your story in this way. [6] Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets other composers' work,[7] having recorded songs by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do. The only way there will be real change will be if people are willing to take a risk, For instance, if somebody comes to my library and says, give me all your copies of Catcher in the Rye and burns them. In 1998, a limited release on CD by the "Valley Forge Record Groupe" was released. No, it came out of a friendship I had with [co-director] Karen OConnor. Known for songs about important topics like civil rights and social justice, Joan Baez has . Harris has delivered many collections and singles throughout her profession and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and various different distinctions, including turning into an individual from the Excellent Ole Opry in 1992 and an enlistment into the Down home Music Lobby of Notoriety in 2008. On November 23, 1962, Baez appeared on the cover of Time Magazinea rare honor then for a musician. So I never would have put a film out that included that while they were still here. She was the first major artist to perform in Sarajevo since the outbreak of the Yugoslav civil war. And its a lovely thing to look at. [133] Baez mentioned Jobs in the acknowledgments in her 1987 memoir And a Voice to Sing With and performed at the memorial for him in 2011. In October of that year, Baez became the first major artist to perform in a professional concert presentation on Alcatraz Island (a former U.S. federal prison) in San Francisco, California, in a benefit for her sister Mimi's Bread and Roses organization. "Folk Guitarists". She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Last edited on 27 February 2023, at 23:05, Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, The Bootleg Series Vol. Apart from that, she also earns through the royalties of her albums too. Nol was a Christmas album of traditional material, while Baptism was akin to a concept album, featuring Baez reading and singing poems written by celebrated poets such as James Joyce, Federico Garca Lorca, and Walt Whitman. Well, thats caveman compared to now. As for "Like A Rolling Stone", "Visions of Johanna", "She Belongs to Me", and other songs alleged to have been written about Baez, neither Dylan nor biographers such as Clinton Heylin and Michael Gray have had anything definitive to say either way regarding the subject of these songs. Joan had been talking about a potential last tour for quite a while and then started to seriously talk about it in, I guess, 2016/2017. voices of Joan Baez and Janis Joplin, and the many other artists who appeared one after another on the stage. Education Baez has been in the public eye for more than 60 years, so it comes as a shock, in watching Joan Baez: I Am a Noise, a new documentary from Karen OConnor, Miri Navasky and Maeve OBoyle, that we never really knew her at all. But yeah, I mean you love your folks. [33] Due to false assumptions that have been promoted about her, Baez stated in 2019 that she has never been part of the feminist movement, and is not a vegetarian.[34]. Well, its very simple. Beginning in the late 1960s, Baez began writing many of her own songs, beginning with "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "A Song For David", both songs appearing on her 1970 (I Live) One Day at a Time album; "Sweet Sir Galahad" was written about her sister Mimi's second marriage, while "A Song For David" was a tribute to Harris. Ive been coached musically for years and have worked hard to keep that voice up. Baez was married to writer and activist David Harris in March 1968. Joan Baez has cut her long black hair. Why did you want to do this documentary and take this particular approach to telling your story. tour. "Where empathy is failing, and sharing has become usurped by greed andlust for power, let us double, triple and quadruple our efforts to empathize. "Dance Till We Die" From Chemtrails is About Joan Baez Revealed By Granddaughter Granddaughter of musician/activist Joan Baez reveals that Chemtrails Over Th. But it turns out my family kept every letter anybody ever wrote. During her time there, she was caught in the U.S. military's "Christmas bombing" of Hanoi, North Vietnam, during which the city was bombed for eleven straight days.[84]. She sang four songs with Dylan on the live album of the tour, The Bootleg Series Vol. Joan Bridge was born April 11, 1913, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second daughter of an Episcopal minister. You mentioned the word closure. Emmylou Harris is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.She is known for her musical genres such as folk music, pop, rock, and country music. [19], Her mother, Joan Chandos Baez (ne Bridge), referred to as Joan Senior or "Big Joan", was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second daughter of an English Anglican priest who claimed to be descended from the Dukes of Chandos. She. [63][64] On April 7, 2017, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan The daughter of a physicist of Mexican descent whose teaching and research took him to various communities in New York, California, and elsewhere, Baez moved often and acquired little formal musical training. (originally recorded by Erma Franklin, 1967) Wow, didn't realize how much I didn't know the lyrics until I heard this cover. But it was so typical that he didnt want to go and accept it. A DVD and CD of the soundtrack were released at the same time. Yeah, and its a choice. On a platform? In the new version, she changed the lyric "here's to the dawn of their days" to "here's to the dawn of her days", as a tribute to her late sister Mimi, about whom Baez wrote the song in 1969. Jenifer Warren, Jenifer and Dolan, Maura (December 13, 2005). Born four months apart, Joanie and Bobby, as they called each other, being just kids, rocketed into the stratosphere in tandem, and long before either had a clue as to how to handle it. While talking to SF Gate, Joan revealed that Jasmine calls her 'abuela' because she wouldn't allow her to call her Grandma. Her youngest daughter Mimi died in 2001. Theres a little bit of that wish still there but its not worth thinking about. I managed to say all that because Ive always looked at my vocal cords as a gift. I mean, I recognized my limitations and worked around them. And then it began. The experience of playing for audiences as large as 10,000 people in a very intimate trio has brought a high level of sensitivity and . Track Listing blue highlight denotes track pick Joan Baez Discography Browser next Joan Baez wrote "The Story of Bangladesh" in 1971. She also joined the choir in the finale of "O Holy Night". Among the songs Baez wrote about this period of her life are "A Song for David", "Myths", "Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)" and "Fifteen Months" (the amount of time Harris was imprisoned). 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