Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry by Mel Watkins

Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry

Mel Watkins

368 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography funny informative medium-paced
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In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the be...

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