The Great Deflector
Fran Ross’s mind was shrewd and skewering, and perhaps her writings will never sit easy among those who look for programmatic answers.
Scott Saul is a professor of English at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Becoming Richard Pryor (2014) and Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties (2004), and the editor-publisher of Richard Pryor's Peoria, The Berkeley Revolution, and The Godfather: Anatomy of a Film.
Fran Ross’s mind was shrewd and skewering, and perhaps her writings will never sit easy among those who look for programmatic answers.