Narrator Karen Chilton joins AudioFile’s Robin Whitten to talk about narrating EARTHA & KITT, Kitt Shapiro’s memoir on her love of her mother. EARTHA & KITT is one of AudioFile’s Best Memoir Audiobooks of the year, and Karen gives it a superb and moving performance. Karen tells Robin about preparing to bring Kitt Shapiro’s words to life, and how her background in jazz informed her approach to this memoir about growing up with entertainment icon Eartha Kitt. Read AudioFile’s full review of the audiobook at audiofilemagazine.com. Published by Dreamscape.
2021 Best Memoir Audiobooks:
THE BOYS by Ron Howard, Clint Howard, read by Ron Howard, Clint Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard
EARTHA & KITT by Kitt Shapiro, Patricia Weiss Levy, read by Karen Chilton
JUST AS I AM by Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford, read by Viola Davis, Cicely Tyson, Robin Miles
MY BROKEN LANGUAGE by Quiara Alegría Hudes, read by Quiara Alegría Hudes
SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER by Ashley C. Ford, read by Ashley C. Ford
For the full list of 2021 Best Audiobooks, visit: audiofilemagazine.com
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Karen Chilton photo by James Alexander.
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