Author

Books by Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier was born in 1927 in Miami while his parents were visiting from Cat Island in the Bahamas, making him a U.S. citizen by accident. He grew up in the Bahamas in poverty and came to New York as a teenager. He trained at the American Negro Theatre and became a major Hollywood star in the 1950s and 1960s, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field in 1964. He was the first Black actor to win that award. He also directed several films and served as Bahamian Ambassador to Japan. He died in January 2022 at the age of 94.