New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this outstanding African American dancer, an innovator in her field. Includes an account of her discovery by Agnes de Mille, her struggle to make it in a world that favors petite white women, her collaboration with Alvin Ailey, the formation of her own troupe, and finally her return to head up the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater after its founder died. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1994. Illustrated throughout with photographs. List of interviews, brief bibliography. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-385-425570.