The Center for Literary Arts Presents
Natalie Baszile
- When
- Thu Feb 8, 2018
- Where
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
- Time
- 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Cost
- Free
- Tags
- Arts, Art Events, Literary Arts, Literary Arts Lectures
Description
Natalie Baszile, author of the Southern debut novel Queen Sugar, will join us for a reading and conversation with Selena Anderson.This event will take place in Room 225 of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library.
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Natalie Baszile is the author of Queen Sugar, which has been adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles' Best Books of 2014 and nominated for the NAACP Image Award.
Baszile also writes nonfiction, which has appeared in Lenny Letter, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Rumpus.net, and The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9.
Baszile has held residencies at the Ragdale Foundation where she was awarded the Sylvia Clare Brown fellowship, Virginia Center for the Arts, and Hedgebrook. Baszile holds an M.A. in Afro-American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers.
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