Called "Buddy" as a child, he had an older sister, Lorraine, who was light-skinned like him, but Shirley, their younger sister, was darker. He was born there in 1920 and spent the first years of his life in the French Quarter at the family home on St. Several years after his death, his daughter Bliss penned a memoir that affirmed what many who knew Broyard had long suspected-that he was not white but rather a light-skinned black person who dismissed questions about his race in order to avoid being pigeonholed as a black writer.īroyard came from an old New Orleans family of free blacks whose men had been bricklayers and carpenters in the city for several generations. He was associated with the New York Times and its separate book review section as a contributor and editor for twenty years, producing more than a thousand reviews for the publication. Anatole Broyard had a long and productive career as a literary critic before his death in 1990.
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