William Francis Dufty was an American writer, musician, and activist.
14 Facts About William Dufty
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William Dufty produced some autobiographical notes in the first chapter, "It is necessary to be personal", of his book Sugar Blues :.
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William Dufty was awarded the George Polk Award for an expose on immigrants.
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William Dufty had one son, Bevan William Dufty, with first wife Maely Bartholomew, who had arrived in New York City during World War II after losing most of her family in the Nazi concentration camps.
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William Dufty settled near Harlem where she met her best friend and Bevan's godmother, Billie Holiday.
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William Dufty took Billie Holiday's oral history and wrote Lady Sings the Blues in 1956, which in turn was made into a 1972 movie starring Diana Ross in the title role.
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William Dufty lost weight and became "calm, cool, collected, precise, and unrattled".
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William Dufty became an advocate of macrobiotics, met Sakurazawa, and prepared the manuscript of You Are All Sanpaku for publication with Felix Morrow in 1965.
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William Dufty practiced and promoted macrobiotic nutrition, advocating a low-fat, high-fiber diet of whole grains, vegetables, sea vegetables, nuts and seeds, combined in accordance with the principles of yin and yang, said to optimize digestion by attention to nature.
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William Dufty had struggled with the symptoms of hypoglycemia and had sought the help of physicians.
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William Dufty undertook a program of research of the impact that sugar has had, and wrote Sugar Blues in 1975.
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William Dufty became good friends with Japanese artist Yoko Ono and her husband, musician and former Beatle, John Lennon.
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William Dufty helped Swanson write her autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, in 1981.
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William Dufty died at age 86 on June 28,2002, at his home in Birmingham, Michigan.