Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant Grant uri icon

abstract


  • The organizers of SAMLA are interested in having me read the essay I was commissioned to write by New York Magazine with expanded content, and I have agreed to do so. The essay is a remembrance of my experiences as personal assistant to the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize recipient Toni Morrison and what I learned in that role. Via carefully selected anecdotes and personal revelations, I hope to allow outsiders a window into the special world that is part and parcel of the literary and cultural underpinnings of our historical period. While homage is at the foundation of the presentation, I also hope that current and prospective students of literature and culture will find fuel for their desire and spur them to create with dignity, loyalty and perseverance.

date/time interval

  • January 2019