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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

By Lynnée Denise
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By Lynnée Denise
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Finalist, 2024 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture
Winner — Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, 45th Annual American Book Awards, Before Columbus Foundation

A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music.

Born in Alabama in 1926, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigent’s grave—Willie Mae “Big Mama” Tho...

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