John Howard Griffin

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Howard Griffin
Occupation	Memoirist
Date Of Birth	Jun 16, 1920(1920-06-16)
Age	104
Date Of Death	1980-09-09
Birthplace	Dallas
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Gemini

John Howard Griffin Biography

John Howard Griffin is one of the most popular and richest Memoirist who was born on June 16, 1920 in Dallas, Texas, United States. The author is from Texas and has published work on racial justice. Most famously, he is remembered for Black Like Me, a 1960 autobiography of his time of pretending to be the identity of an African American man in the American South.

The actor Actor James Whitmore starred in the 1964 film version of Griffin’s memoir, Black Like Me. starred in the 1964 film adaptation of Griffin’s memoir Black Like Me.

He was brought up at Dallas, Texas by John Griffin and pianist Lena Griffin. The marriage he had with Elizabeth Ann Holland produced four children. It began in 1953 and continued until his death in 1980.

John Howard Griffin Net Worth

John Howard Griffin is one of the richest Memoirist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Howard Griffin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After completing his studies in French in the University of Poitiers and medicine at the French Ecole de Medecine, was a soldier in the Pacific theatre during World War II as a part of the United States Army Air Corps.

His first literary works that were published in the 1950s comprise The Devil Rides Outside, Land of the High Sky and Nuni.

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Facts & Trivia

John Ranked on the list of most popular Memoirist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John Howard Griffin celebrates birthday on June 16 of every year.

How did John Howard Griffin go blind?

He suffered a bout with spinal malaria that left him temporarily paraplegic. During this year, Griffin married an island woman. In 1946 he went slowly blind, the after effect of a severe concussion that he had received from a Japanese bomb. He would remain blind until miraculously regaining his sight in 1957.

Is the movie Black Like Me based on a true story?

Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation.

Was the book Black Like Me made into a movie?

Black Like Me is a 1964 American drama film based on the 1961 book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. The journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959 in the Deep South to report on life in the segregated society from the other side of the color line.

What is the main idea of Black Like Me?

“Black Like Me disabused the idea that minorities were acting out of paranoia ,” says Gerald Early, a black scholar at Washington University and editor of Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation.

Where did John Howard Griffin go to school?

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