Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights (2001)
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Pulitzer Prize nominated author and editor David Margolick couldn't have been more in-depth or judicious in this journalistic investigation into the myth, truth, and legacy of the song.
Strange Fruit (1944)
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Lilian Smith's 1944 novel deals with the racial tensions of the time just, as Meeropol's song did, though it engages the reader with a tale of the interracial romance between a white man and a black woman.