Save the date: Alice Walker at Emory, March 25
March 18th, 2008 by Krista Derbecker Gilliam in Books, Celebrity, News
(Courtesy Emory University Photography)
Alice Walker, author, poet and Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple, comes to Emory University on Tuesday, March 25, to read from her large collection of works.
In December 2007, Walker placed her archive — journals, letters to and from editors, and early drafts of her work — at Emory University. Here’s what Rudolph Byrd, professor of American studies at Emory and founding member of the Alice Walker Literary Society, has to say about the collection:
A national treasure, the Walker archive contains more than 50 years of thinking and writing by Alice Walker, who is a canonical figure in American and African American letters…the papers give you a sense of the process for creating fiction, creating poetry.
The public reading takes place at 6 p.m. at Emory University’s Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Road. But don’t bring your Alice Walker favorites, hoping for a John Hancock. There will not be a book signing following the event.
Tickets went on sale Monday, and cost $10 for the public and $5 for Emory faculty, students and staff. Tickets can be purchased in person at the Arts at Emory box office, by phone at 404-727-5050, or online at www.arts.emory.edu. An extra $3.50 will be charged for phone and Internet purchases.
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