| Summary: | Film historian and author Donald Bogle was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lincoln University in 1966, having earned his B.A. degree in literature. Bogle worked as a story editor on films of legendary director, Otto Preminger. He then served as a reporter and editor for Ebony magazine. Bogle published his first book in 1973, the award-winning Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. He completed several other works, including Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars; Blacks in American Film and Television: an Encyclopedia; Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography; Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television; Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood; and Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters. Bogle taught at Rutgers University, Lincoln University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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