Join us for a captivating lecture with Edwidge Danticat on April 18! Edwidge Danticat is Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of We’re Alone and numerous other books, including Everything Inside, winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, the Story Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize, and The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in Criticism. Her novels include Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Among other awards, she has received a MacArthur Fellowship, the Neustadt Prize, and the Vilcek Prize.
Professor Danticat will be reading from a selection of her writings. Her reading will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by Simmons students and Assistant Professor Patrick Sylvain. The event will conclude with a book sale (facilitated by the Campus Barnes and Noble Bookstore) and a book signing.
The annual Robert M. Gay Memorial lecture series is hosted by the Gwen Ifill School of Media, Humanities, and Social Sciences, the Humanities Department, and the Office of Research and Fellowships.