John Howard Griffin

Biography

J.H. Griffin was born with Dallas (Texas) on June 16th 1920. He studies French and the literature with the Université of Poitiers, as well as medicine, also in France. He spends some time at the Bénédictins to the Abbaye of Solesmes where he studies the effects of the music on the madness.

At the time of the Second world war, it is attached to the service psychiatic of a hospital in France. Then it takes share with the Résistance and then will serve the American army in the Pacifique before turning over to Europe right before the end of the war. At the time of a combat, it is reached by a glare of shell which returns it afterwards blind man a few months. It then returns to live in his parents in Texas and studies the Philosophie, until its marriage in 1952.

In 1959, worried by the condition of the Blacks in the south of the United States, it decides to undergo a treatment associated with ultraviolet rays to brown the skin. It spends then 6 weeks in the south of the United States (in Louisiana, with the the Mississippi, in Alabama and Georgia) to realize of the undergone racial segregation to the daily newspaper by the Blacks. It is starting from this experiment that he writes In the skin of a Black in 1961.

He studies much the economic social justice and social relations, policies and between the races.

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