Helen Oyeyemi appears in the following:
Helen Oyeyemi's New Fairytale 'Gingerbread'
Monday, May 27, 2019
Rebroadcast: Helen Oyeyemi on her new novel, "Gingerbread".
This Is Not a Disney Story: Helen Oyeyemi Takes on Snow White
Thursday, March 05, 2015
The novelist Helen Oyeyemi deconstructs the Snow White story to find the real villain: a mirror that dictates the characters’ identities.
Helen Oyeyemi Takes on Snow White
Friday, March 14, 2014
The writer was born in Nigeria; the tale comes from medieval Germany; the setting is a small New England town in the 1950s. Boy, Snow, Bird is Helen Oyeyemi’s fifth novel, and like mo...
Helen Oyeyemi's Novel Boy, Snow, Bird
Friday, March 07, 2014
Helen Oyeyemi talks about her novel Boy, Snow, Bird. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking for a new life. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. When Bird has a baby who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white.
A Memoir About Finding One's Place In The Natural World
Saturday, July 13, 2013
The latest addition to a body of work that includes six novels, a short story collection, and editorship of several folk tale anthologies, I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place is just the right sort of read for those who usually take in non-fiction with a grim reluctance, as if ...