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.
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