Join us for
an evening with two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward as she
discusses how her literary vision and personal experiences address urgent
questions about racism and social injustice.
Ward, hailed
as “the new Toni Morrison” by the American Booksellers Association, is the
author of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir, including the critically acclaimed
novels Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones, and the memoir Men We
Reaped. In 2017, she became the first woman and first person of color to win
the National Book Award for Fiction twice. A professor of creative writing at
Tulane University and contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Ward’s many honors
include the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, a MacArthur Genius
Grant, and a Strauss Living Award.
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