George Houston Bass

George Houston Bass (1938–1990)[1][2] was an American playwright, director and writer. He lived and worked in Providence, Rhode Island. He founded the Rites and Reason Theater at Brown University in September 1970. He was also the literary secretary to and the executor of the literary estate of poet Langston Hughes.[3] Bass founded the Langston Hughes Society in 1981 and the society's publication, the Langston Hughes Review, in 1982.[4]

George Houston Bass
Born(1938-04-23)April 23, 1938
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
DiedSeptember 18, 1992(1992-09-18) (aged 54)
Providence, Rhode Island
Alma materFisk University

Bass is credited with writing the arrangement of the folk song "Sea Lion Woman" popularized by Nina Simone in 1964.[5] A 1965 letter from Hughes supports this by referencing "my former secretary's SEA LION WOMAN [Nina] is featuring live on every concert".[6]

Awards
  • Harlem Cultural Council Award, 1969.[7]

References
  1. The Langston Hughes Review: Official Publication of the Langston Hughes Society. Afro-American Studies Program, Brown University. 1991.
  2. O'Donnell, Monica M. (1984). Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Gale. ISBN 978-0-8103-2064-2.
  3. Pina, Alisha A. "RI Features." Providence Journal (RI), sec. RI Features, 17 Apr. 2016, p. 12. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/15C4EEA941E5FE10. Accessed 31 Oct. 2019.
  4. "George Houston Bass." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, FINAL ed., sec. NEWS, 22 Sept. 1990, p. C11. NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EB4F2B82B3D0C10. Accessed 31 Oct. 2019.
  5. "Images for Nina Simone single". Discogs. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  6. Hughes, Langston (2015). Selected Letters of Langston Hughes. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 401. ISBN 0375413790.
  7. "George Houston Bass, Theater Professor, 52". The New York Times. September 21, 1990. Retrieved April 1, 2009.


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