Review: What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography Alan Light Crown Archetype 2016 Nina Simone. For some nothing more needs to be said. For others, like me, this biography opens the way to the part of life we missed somewhere along the way. If you came of age in the 1960’s you might have missed a significant person of interest, Eunice Kathleen Waymon, otherwise known as Nina Simone. Light follows her life from her humble beginnings to her final moments in his biography which the cover says was inspired by “the acclaimed Netflix documentary.” The quote from Maya Angelou that opens this book sums up what happened throughout Simone’s life. Angleou sees Simone’s “loneliness…, so little tenderness…, and …a commitment to the battle of Life…”. That says it all. Light fills in the details. After about the third repeat of Simone’s cyclic life pattern I gave up on a majority of the text and skipped to the final...
