Acclaimed author Jesmyn Ward will discuss her recent works Let Us Descend, Sing, Unburied, Sing and Where the Line Bleeds as part of Richland Library's Broader Bookshelf program. The author talk will be followed by a reception, book sale, and book signing.
This is an after-hours, offsite event and registration is not required. The event will be held at the Campus Room on the campus of the University of South Carolina located at 898 Barnwell Street, Columbia SC 29201.
About the Author:
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner—first woman and first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.
Add to Calendar2024-09-25 18:00:002024-09-25 20:00:00Meet the Author: Jesmyn Ward
Broaden your bookshelf and enjoy this author talk with award-winning author Jesmyn Ward.
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