Half a Life (memoir) critical favorite in the UK, "Half a Life" was called "one of the best books I have ever read" by Ali Catterall on The BBC, as well as "precise, elegantly written, fresh, wise, and very sad ... indicative not only of a very talented writer, but of a proper human being” by Nick Hornby "Half a Life" was widely excerpted in venues such as "GQ", "This American Life", United Kingdom papers "The Times" and "Daily Mail". "Half a Life" received the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Half a Life (memoir) Half a Life is a book by
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion [Yapher Kotto] nor co-stars Cleavon Little and Ned Beatty can unshackle this plodding drama." Douglas R. Egerton, author of a 2004 biography of Denmark Vesey, said, "PBS produced a moving television drama... featuring the charismatic—if then too youthful—Caribbean-born actor Yaphet Kotto as the aged revolutionary." A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion is a 1982 television film about Denmark Vesey, a literate skilled carpenter and former slave who planned a slave rebellion in 1822 in Charleston, South Carolina. "Denmark Vesey's Rebellion" was produced by WPBT and PBS, and Yaphet Kotto played Vesey. Denmark Vesey is