Alice Randall [SEP] place of birth
Alice Randall
Alice Randall (born May 4, 1959) is an American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel "The Wind Done Gone", a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind".
Early life.
Born Mari-Alice Randall in Detroit, Michigan, she grew up in Washington, D.C.. She attended Harvard University, where she earned an honors degree in English and American literature, before moving to Nashville in
which forcibly removed thousands of half-caste (half-Aboriginal) children from their families. This policy came to be known as the "Stolen Generation." Randall was taken to The Bungalow, an institution for half-caste children in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, then later was moved to a reservation on Croker Island in Arnhem Land, thousands of kilometres away from his home and family. Randall was given a new identity and birth date.
City life.
Randall was kept in government institutions until he was