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Gail Lumet Buckley (née Gail Horne Jones; December 21, 1937 – July 18, 2024) was an American journalist and author. [1] Life and career.
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Jul 26, 2024 · By Richard Sandomir. July 26, 2024. Gail Lumet Buckley, who rather than follow her mother, Lena Horne, into show business, wrote two multigenerational books about their ambitious Black middle ...
- Descended from The Hornes of Brooklyn
- Daughter of Hollywood’s First Black Star
- Became A Budding Journalist
- Took on The Role of “Director’s Wife”
- Family History Inspired Two Books
- Selected Writings
- Sources
Gail Lumet Buckley was born Gail Horne Jones on December 21, 1937, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, Louis Jones, was a publisher and her mother, Lena Horne, was a famous singer and actress. Buckley’s family was part of the old black middle class. Her great-grandparents were descendants of slaves who settled in New York. Among black society ...
As a young child Buckley often traveled between New York and California as her mother began to make a splash in Hollywood. Eventually the Homes settled in California and Buckley became neighbors with some of Hollywood’s elite, such as Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and Vera Caspary. Buckley went to school with Natalie Wood, as well as the children o...
Buckley graduated from high school in 1955 and decided to go to college at Harvard, the elite Ivy League school that she believed would allow her to become “worldly.” Buckley pursued a degree in French and she was also active in the Harvard Dramatic Club. In 1957 she won the best acting prize at the Yale Drama festival. After her second year of col...
While working for Life Buckley met Sidney Lumet, a television and movie director who directed such movies at Long Day’s Journey into Night and The Pawnbroker. Lumet was fourteen years older than Buckley and he had already been married twice, so Lena Horne was not thrilled with her daughter’s choice of a husband. “But the more Lena tried to dissuade...
In the early 1980s Buckley stumbled across her grandfather Teddy Horne’s old trunk of photographs, newspaper clippings, and souvenirs. The remnants of her family’s past inspired her to write a book about her family history. In 1986 Buckley published The Hornes: An American Family, in which she traced six generations of her family’s history. In a re...
Books
The Horne: An American Family, Knopf, 1986. American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, Random House, 2001.
Books
Who’s Who Among African Americans, 15th ed., Gale Group, 2002. Writer’s Directory, 18th ed., St. James Press, 2002.
Periodicals
America, November 23, 1996, p. 2. Newsweek, June 25, 2001, p. 89. Smithsonian, August 1986, p. 126.
On-line
“Gail Lumet Buckley,” Contemporary Authors Online, www.galenet.com (February 12, 2003). —Janet P. Stamatel
Jul 31, 2024 · Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer whose books combined history and memoir to highlight Black achievement in the United States, often through the prism of her own family, including her mother,...
Aug 1, 2024 · We're going to listen back to an interview with her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, who wrote of her family's journey from enslavement to the Black bourgeoisie. She died last month at the age of...
Jul 30, 2024 · Gail Lumet Buckley, who died on July 18, was an award-winning chronicler of the African American experience. She once wrote of herself in 'America' that "I choose the cross of faith...
Aug 1, 2024 · She died last month at the age of 86. Gail Lumet Buckley grew up in New York, Los Angeles and Europe and graduated from Harvard. She worked at Life magazine before marrying the celebrated film ...
