Books by Lise Funderburg

About

Lise Funderburg's groundbreaking oral history, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, was first published in 1994 and has been widely used in the study of race and racial identity. The New York Times praised it for showing us how to talk about race with "feeling, humor, and dignity." Black, White, Other was recently released in a 20th anniversary ebook edition, with a foreword by novelist Mat Johnson. Lise's memoir, Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home (Free Press), is a contemplation of life, death, race, and barbecue. Her latest book is Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents (University of Nebraska, 2019), a collection of all-new work by 25 writers, which Publishers Weekly deemed a "sparkling anthology" in its starred review. Lise's writing has appeared in many publications and she teaches creative nonfiction writing at The University of Pennsylvania and the Paris Writers' Workshop.