Bonnie Greer, British-American author and critic, dies at 77

British-American novelist, playwright and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer died Tuesday evening aged 77 after a brief illness, her husband David Hutchins announced.

• Born in Chicago in 1948, Greer moved to the UK in 1986 and became a British citizen in 1997.
• She served on the boards of the Royal Opera House, British Museum and London Film School, and as chancellor of Kingston University.
• Her published works included the novels Hanging by Her Teeth and Entropy, the memoir A Parallel Life, and a critical biography of Langston Hughes.
• Greer was appointed OBE in 2010 for services to the arts and named a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.