Writers@Grinnell Welcomes Jerald Walker

8 p.m. Reading; Wednesday, April 13, 2022, via Zoom.

Published:
December 06, 2021

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Jerald Walker has published in magazines such as Creative NonfictionThe Missouri Review, The Harvard ReviewMother JonesThe Iowa Review, and The Oxford American, and he has been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays. Walker is the author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption — recipient of the 2011 PEN New England/L.L. Winship Award for Nonfiction and named a Best Memoir of the Year by Kirkus Reviews — and The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult. His latest book, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. He has received fellowships from the James Michener Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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