Broyard in literary sources   Im seeing a bunch of sources that state Broyard in them Im going to list them so that any readers of this talk page can see how prevalent the Broyard connection was touted by literary reviews critics and other sources Thanks to a Highbeam access Ill give a snippet and a link for each one   The Human Stain supposedly based upon the life of the New York Times literary critic Anatole Broyard is about Coleman Silk a Newarkborn African American whose fair complexion allows him in his adult life to pass as a white man Halio Jay L The Human StainReview Shofar University of Nebraska Press  Retrieved September   from HighBeam Research httpwwwhighbeamcomdocGhtml The most prominent prototype for Coleman Silk is the very real Anatole Broyard onetime book critic of the New York Times and legendary Greenwich Village seducer Broyards secret racial identity was long rumored You find Broyardesque characters all through the books of his friends Ralph Ellisons Juneteenth for instance Theres a beauty named Harry Diadem in Calder Willinghams Eternal Fire  a consummate seducer whose race can only be discerned by the shading under his fingernails  JEFF SIMON RACE MATTERS  HUMAN STAIN A SMALL TREASURE The Buffalo News Buffalo NY Dialog LLC  Retrieved September   from HighBeam Research httpwwwhighbeamcomdocPhtml  Bizarrely a number of prominent reviewers including Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times efface the tangled interplay of blackness and Jewishness at the heart of The Human Stain describing this rather as the story of a black man who decided to pass himself off as white pointing to the life story of book critic Anatole Broyard  Shapiro James Roth Returns to Oedipal Themes and Rediscovers Tragedy The Human Stain Transcends the Headlines Creating Timeless Drama The Human Stain Forward Forward Pub Co  Retrieved September   from HighBeam Research httpwwwhighbeamcomdocPhtml the late Anatole Broyard the passer and Times book reviewer on whom Mr Roths Coleman Silk is partly based  Cinematic Stain Stirs My Soul Coleman Silk I Feel Your PainArtsEntertainmentReview The New York Observer New York NY The New York Observer  Retrieved September   from HighBeam Research httpwwwhighbeamcomdocGhtml  The Human Stain is in part an imagined life of the late Anatole Broyard and Readers who pick up The Human Stain because of a prurient interest in Anatole Broyard will soon develop another and perhaps greater interest in Coleman Silk  Allen Brooke Twilight TriumphsReview The New Leader American Labor Conference on International Affairs  Retrieved September   from HighBeam Research httpwwwhighbeamcomdocGhtml His  novel The Human Stain offered an inherently interesting story inspired by the life of literary critic Anatole Broyard an important advocate of Roths early work who had more or less passed from black to white  Sailer Steve The gropes of RothElegyPhilip RothMovie review The American Conservative The American Conservative  Retrieved September   from HighBeam Research httpwwwhighbeamcomdocGhtml When Roths novel about passing The Human Stain  appeared in  the character who jettisons his black family to live as white was strongly reminiscent of Broyard  Brent Staples The tragic choice of black or white MEANWHILE International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune  Retrieved September   from HighBeam Research httpwwwhighbeamcomdocPhtml In The Human Stain Philip Roths fictional protagonist Coleman Silk was loosely modeled on the late Anatole Broyard for many years a prominent literary critic for The New York Times  DAVID CRARY Associated Press Writer Decades after segregations demise passing for white remains a resonant topic AP Worldstream Press Association Inc  Retrieved September   from HighBeam Research httpwwwhighbeamcomdocPhtml Philip Roths novel The Human Stain attracted considerable attention some years back it was widely read as a fictionalized version of literary critic Anatole Broyards life Broyard an editor at The New York Times Book Review was a lightskinned black man who decided early in his career to pass he cut ties with his family and lived his life as a white man   Williams Patricia J Rush Limbaughs inner black childThe Human Stain movie adaptation of book by Philip RothMovie Review The Nation The Nation Institute  Retrieved September   from Hi