About Bonnie Greer
Bonnie Greer, OBE FRSL is an American and British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster, who has lived in the UK since 1986. She has appeared as a panellist on television programmes such as Newsnight Review and Question Time and has served on the boards of several leading arts organisations, including the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the London Film School. She is Vice President of the Shaw Society. She is a former Chancellor of Kingston University in Kingston upon Thames, London. In July 2022 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Living in Manhattan's West Village (part of Greenwich Village) in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Greer had many gay male friends who became seriously ill. Lecture video recording, 2 hrs.] "Marilyn, Ella... & Bonnie – Newsnight's kindest critic brings the strange-but-true tale of two icons to Edinburgh".
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