‘Newsnight’s kindest critic’: Bonnie Greer was always effortlessly in command
Playwright was an unusual mix of originality and authority and in high demand as a cultural criticBonnie Greer, who has died at the age of 77, moved to the UK from New York in 1986. She grew up in Chicago with six younger siblings. Her father worked in a factory and her mother “kept house”, she said once – in a tone so elegantly ominous, she conjured an image of a woman holding up a full dwelling with seven chi…