Gail Lumet Buckley was born Gail Horne Jones on 21 December, 1937 in Pittsburgh- Pennsylvania. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1959.
Gail Lumet Buckley embraced journalism as her career and she wrote for Marie-Claire as journalist. She was the student counselor of National Scholarship Service and Funds for Negro Students. She also penned for Life magazine and had contributed to several periodicals.
Gail Lumet Buckley enjoyed the life of rich
black middle class family that was at the verge of entering the elite class as her mother Lena Horne touched the new horizons of fame being the first black Hollywood star.
Whatever contributions the Hornes have in the welfare of American society, they were not immune to racism, yet a major change came into her life when Lena Horne decided to marry a white Lennie Hayton. Although her life was filled with celebrities and travels after Lena-Lennie marriage, she came to know that their social life was not void of racism and politics.
She met her future husband while she was working for Life magazine and she married her ideal older man Sidney Lumet but their marriage did not get the public attention as it was a day after J.F. Kennedy’s assassination.
It took her several years to judge that she was not living a meaningful life so she divorced Sidney Lumet and returned to her religious beliefs.
Gail Lumet Buckley would remain the second black star after her mother for her two books, The Hornes: An American Family and Blacks in Uniform: From Bunker Hill to Desert Storm.
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