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Arnold Rampersad and Robert Morgan on the art of biography
Duration: 01:44:06
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Writing Lives/Making Visible
Arnold Rampersad is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Stanford University, where he teaches in the Department of English. He is the prize-winning author or editor of more than a dozen books mainly about black American life and culture, with an emphasis on biography and autobiography. These include full-length studies of the lives of Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson, and Ralph Ellison, as well as "The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois," a pioneering intellectual biography of arguably the most influential African-American thinker.
Robert Morgan is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently "The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems," and eight works of fiction, including "Gap Creek," "Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution" and "Boone: A Biography." A native of western North Carolina, Morgan has received the Southern Book Award for "Gap Creek," which was a New York Times bestseller and a selection for the Oprah Book Club, and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English.
Rampersad and Morgan spoke Nov. 19, 2008, at Goldwin Smith. The lecture was organized by the Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group (MITWS), and co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Professor Kenneth A. McClane.
- Event Date: November 19, 2008
- Posted: February 25, 2009
- Tags: writers
- From: Creative Writing
- Duration: 1:44:06
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