Redundant Women: The Daughters of Nate Shaw
Shaw biographer Ted Rosengarten recalls tenant farmer's daughters
Wednesday, October 22
Reception at 5 p.m.
Program at 5:45 p.m.
Wilson Library
Free and open to the public
Information: Liza Terll, 919-962-4207
Also reading in Wilson Library this month: Clyde Edgerton (Oct. 16) and Daniel Wallace (Oct. 30)
A 5-p.m. reception in the Library lobby will precede the 5:45-p.m. program, Redundant Women: Daughters of Nate Shaw, in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room. Books will be available for purchase, courtesy of the Bull's Head Bookshop.
Rosengarten, who met the Shaws in 1969, wrote in All God's Dangers about Shaw's youth, life as a tenant farmer, his involvement with the Alabama Sharecroppers Union and the 12 years Shaw spent in prison for confronting Alabama deputies. (Shaw passed away in 1973.)
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., the author holds a bachelor's degree from Amherst College and a doctorate from Harvard University. The author of Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best biography, Rosengarten was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1989. He has taught at the College of Charleston, the University of South Carolina, Duke and Harvard Universities and at the University of California at Irvine.
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