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    John Henry Days

    Colson Whitehead

    the Los Angles Times Book Prize for Best Novel. Set in 1996, John Henry Days travels back and forth through time to relate the juxtaposing life challenges of folk legend…

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    Jay Wright

    Jay Wright’s life and career is as rich and diverse as his acclaimed writing. Known best for his books of poetry, Wright has also authored plays and essays. His work…

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    From Many Lands

    Louis Adamic

    …Slovenia. He achieved national acclaim in America in 1934 with his book The Native’s Return, which was a bestseller directed against King Alexander’s regime in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. This…

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    Deacon King Kong

    James McBride

    …won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, spent more than two years on the bestseller lists and entered the international literary canon. Asked in 2013 by the New York Times if he identified with any…

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    “Of Fear and Strangers”: Author George Makari at Cleveland Botanical Gardens

    September 16, 2022, 3:00 pm

    …J. Castele Professor, Dr. Jonathan Sadowsky. Makari is an historian, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist whose “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia” was a Bloomberg Best Nonfiction Book of 2021….

  • Portrait of John Edgar Wideman
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    John Edgar Wideman

    …PEN/Faulkner Award twice: in1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. In 1997, his novel, Cattle Killing, won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction. Wideman also won…

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    Dust Tracks on a Road

    Zora Neale Hurston

    …one of the most frequently assigned novels on college campuses and one of the best-known works of African American literature. Moreover, Hurston’s other books have been reprinted, scholar Robert Hemenway…

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    Half-Blood Blues

    Esi Edugyan

    Best New American Voices 2003 and Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing (2006). Her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award….

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    An Evening With Victoria Chang

    September 16, 2022, 5:00 pm

    …award-winning poetry collection, Obit. It was also finalist for a National Book Critics Award and listed as a best book of 2020 by Time magazine, the Boston Globe and NPR….

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    The Jews Among the Nations

    Erich Kahler

    …a renowned mid-twentieth-century European-American literary scholar and essayist best known for scholarly works like The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of Man (1957). Kahler was born…

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    The Lost Cities of Africa

    Basil Davidson

    …African shores. Basil Davidson is the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa and certainly the best trusted in Africa itself. Davidson is the often-overlooked fourth man…

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    Generations of Captivity

    Ira Berlin

    …Negro in the Antebellum South, was awarded the Best First Book Prize by the National Historical Society. In 2003 he also was the chief advisor of the HBO film Unchained…

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    Ishmael Reed

    …Reed in 2021 as “America’s most fearless satirist.”  The writer best known for the groundbreaking novel “Mumbo Jumbo” will see its 50th anniversary edition out from Scribner this year. It…

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    The World of Sholom Aleichem

    Maurice Samuel

    …and only the memory remains. Maurice Samuel was a Romanian-born British and American novelist, translator and lecturer. A Jewish and Zionist intellectual, he is best known for his work You…

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    The Trees

    Percival Everett

    …it, that happens more with rivers than it does with art.” Everett won the 2002 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for his best-known novel “Erasure,” and a PEN USA Literary Award for