A TOUCH OF INNOCENCE (312 pp.) Katherine DunhamHarcourt, Brace ($4.95).
In the day of the ghostparticularly among haunted show-business autobiographersDancer Katherine Dunham's decision to do her own writing is something of a breach of convention. Even more remarkably, she writes with skill and taste, and has made her personal history reflective rather than regurgitative.
Author Dunham states in a note to the reader that what she has written is not an autobiography, but the book's heroine is a girl named Katherine Dunham who grew up near Chicago, as did the author, the daughter of...
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