The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing by Golden, Marita
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing by Golden, Marita

The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing

Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives--in often unexpected ways. In these...
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Author: Marita Golden
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The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing by Golden, Marita

The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing

$52.46
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing by Golden, Marita

The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing

$52.46
Author: Marita Golden
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives--in often unexpected ways.

In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah's Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual borders of their communities and broadening their sense of self.

Edwidge Danticat movingly recounts the first time she encountered a Black character in a book and how this changed her worldview forever; Edward P. Jones speaks openly about being raised by an illiterate mother; J. California Cooper discusses the spiritual sources of her literary inspiration; Nathan McCall explains how reading saved his life while in prison; Pearl Cleage muses eloquently about how other people's stories help one make one's own way in the world; and world-renowned historian John Hope Franklin--in one of the last interviews he gave before his death--touchingly recalls his childhood in the segregated South and how reading opened his mind to life's greater possibilities.

The stories that emerge from these in-depth interviews not only provide an important record of the creative life of leading Black writers but also explore the vast cultural and spiritual benefits of reading and writing, and they support the growing initiative to encourage people to read as both a passion and a pastime.

Author: Marita Golden
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 01/11/2011
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.31w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780767929912


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/18/2010
Booklist 12/01/2010 pg. 12
Library Journal 01/01/2011 pg. 98

About the Author
MARITA GOLDEN is an award-winning author of more than a dozen works
of fiction and nonfiction. She is the cofounder and president emeritus of the
Hurston/Wright Foundation.
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