Background
Karen Grigsby Bates was born in 1951 in Connecticut. She the daughter of a telephone company middle manager and a school teacher. Bates grew up in Connecticut.
Karen Grigsby Bates
106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481, United States
Karen Grigsby Bates studied at Wellesley College. She got a Bachelor of Arts.
Legon Boundary, Accra, Ghana
Karen Grigsby Bates studied at the University of Ghana.
165 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Karen Grigsby Bates studied at Yale School of Management.
106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481, United States
Karen Grigsby Bates studied at Wellesley College. She got a Bachelor of Arts.
Legon Boundary, Accra, Ghana
Karen Grigsby Bates studied at the University of Ghana.
165 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Karen Grigsby Bates studied at Yale School of Management.
Karen Grigsby Bates
Karen Grigsby Bates
Bruce Wayne Talamon
Bruce Wayne Talamon and Jordan Talamon (right)
Karen Elyse Hudson
(Etiquette for real people who live real lives. In "Basic ...)
Etiquette for real people who live real lives. In "Basic Black," Karen Grigsby Bates and Karen Elyse Hudson have gathered those elements that are, just basic to making life more livable - and they've added something specific to modern life.
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1996
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2001
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When Alex Powell stops into a Los Angeles bookstore on a rainy spring night, she's planning to write a column on the author who is reading and signing books there. But what she gets instead is a firsthand look at the murder of a controversial African American writer.
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2006
Karen Grigsby Bates was born in 1951 in Connecticut. She the daughter of a telephone company middle manager and a school teacher. Bates grew up in Connecticut.
After graduating from high school, Karen Grigsby Bates attended Wellesley College, majoring both in sociology and Black studies. As a student, she contributed to the university newspaper and literary magazine, and during the summer of her junior year, she participated in an international exchange program at the University of Ghana, near Accra. Upon her graduation from Wellesley College, Bates went through the Executive Management Program at Yale University's Graduate School of Organization and Management.
After studying Karen Grigsby Bates was busy with a career in journalism for non-profit and profit-making enterprises.
She is the Los Angeles-based correspondent for National Public Radio News. Bates contributed commentaries to "All Things Considered" for about 10 years before she joined National Public Radio in 2002 as the first correspondent and alternate host for "The Tavis Smiley Show." In addition to general reporting and substitute hosting, she increased the show’s coverage of international issues and its cultural coverage, especially in the field of literature and the arts.
Before coming to National Public Radio, Bates was a news reporter for "People" magazine. She was a contributing columnist to the opposite the editorial pages of the "Los Angeles Times" for ten years. Her work has appeared in "Time," "The New York Times," "The Washington Post," "Essence" and "Vogue." And she's been a guest on several news shows.
In early 2003, Bates joined National Public Radio's former midday news program "Day to Day." She has reported on politics, media, and breaking news.
Karen Grigsby Bates is the Senior Correspondent for "Code Switch," a podcast that reports on race and ethnicity. She is especially interested in stories about the hidden history of race in America - and at the intersection of race and culture. She oversees much of "Code Switch" books by and about people of color, as well as issues of race in the publishing industry.
One of Bates' proudest contributions is making books and authors a high-profile part of National Public Radio's coverage. She had conversations with such writers as Walter Mosley, Joan Didion, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Her bi-annual book lists are listener favorites.
In her non-National Public Radio life, Bates is the author of "Plain Brown Wrapper" and "Chosen People," mysteries featuring reporter-sleuth Alex Powell. She is co-author, with Karen Hudson, of "Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times," a best-selling etiquette book now in its second edition. Her work also appears in several writers' anthologies.
Karen Grigsby Bates is known as the Senior Correspondent for "Code Switch." A veteran National Public Radio reporter, Bates covered the race for the network for several years before becoming a founding member of the "Code Switch" team.
Also, Bates is the co-author of a best-selling etiquette book "Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times" and two mystery novels.
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1996
Quotations:
"There's always been a Black middle class and it has expanded hugely in the last thirty years, so this way of life does exist for a good segment of Black America, and I wanted to see that in print in an enlightened way."
"Fiction is a great place to finally be able to stretch out and write. You can’t be sloppy, but you can indulge in more detail."
Karen Grigsby Bates married to Bruce Talamon. They have a son, Jordan Talamon.
Bruce Talamon is an American photographer.
Karen Hudson writes an advice column titled "Talk to Me" for the "Wave Newspapers Group" and she is the author of a biography of her maternal grandfather, "Paul R. Williams, Architect: A Legacy of Style," and a biography for young people, "The Will and the Way: Paul R. Williams, Architect." She speaks extensively on etiquette, party planning, and architecture.
