`  == Broyard in literary sources ==  I'm seeing a bunch of sources that state Broyard in them. I'm 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, I'll 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 Newark-born African American whose fair complexion allows him in his adult life to pass as a white man.`` -Halio, Jay L.. ``The Human Stain.(Review).`` Shofar. University of Nebraska Press. 2001. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79839485.html #``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. Broyard's secret racial identity was long rumored. You find Broyard-esque characters all through the books of his friends, Ralph Ellison's ``Juneteenth,`` for instance. There's a beauty named Harry Diadem in Calder Willingham's ``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. 2003. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22588467.html # ``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. 2000. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79271599.html #``...the late Anatole Broyard, the ``passer`` and Times book reviewer on whom Mr. Roth's Coleman Silk is partly based.`` - ``Cinematic Stain Stirs My Soul: Coleman Silk, I Feel Your Pain.(Arts&Entertainment;)(Review).`` The New York Observer (New York, NY). The New York Observer. 2003. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-109503199.html # ``(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 Triumphs.(Review).`` The New Leader. American Labor Conference on International Affairs. 2000. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-63787486.html #``His 2000 novel The Human Stain offered an inherently interesting story inspired by the life of literary critic Anatole Broyard, an important advocate of Roth's early work, who had more or less passed from black to white.`` - Sailer, Steve. ``The gropes of Roth.(Elegy)(Philip Roth)(Movie review).`` The American Conservative. The American Conservative. 2008. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-181856670.html #``When Roth's novel about passing The Human Stain  appeared in 2000, 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. 2003. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79633187.html #``In ``The Human Stain,`` Philip Roth's 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 segregation's demise, passing for white remains a resonant topic.`` AP Worldstream. Press Association, Inc. 2003. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-86546890.html #``Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain attracted considerable attention some years back; it was widely read as a fictionalized version of literary critic Anatole Broyard's life. Broyard, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, was a light-skinned 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 Limbaugh's inner black child.(The Human Stain, movie adaptation of book by Philip Roth)(Movie Review).`` The Nation. The Nation Institute. 2003. Retrieved September 08, 2012 from Hi