BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3504-369165fb795832902dc5ce1eb1edd486@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260904T064459Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T203000 SUMMARY:Maryemma Graham Reading DESCRIPTION:\nMaryemma Graham\, Distinguished Professor at the \;Uni versity of Kansas\, will offer a reading of her highly acclaimed and ant icipated biography\, \;The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Ma rgaret Walker.\n\nGraham&rsquo\;s \;The House Where My Soul Lives: T he Life of Margaret Walker \;was published by Oxford University Pres s in December 2022. It is the first biography written about poet and wri ter Margaret Walker (1915&ndash\;1998) and offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the twentieth& nbsp\;century. The biography includes eighty archival photos and documen ts and never-before examined personal papers and interviews with those w ho knew Walker personally. Well-known scholar\, Paula J. Giddings\, says this of the biography: &ldquo\;At once a radiant memorial\, a clear-eye d portrait and an intellectual history\, Graham&rsquo\;s biography of wr iter Margaret Walker is an extraordinary study of an extraordinary woman .&rdquo\;\n\nThis event receives support from the College of the Liberal Arts\, Department of English\, and Department of African American Studi es.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/maryemma-graham -reading/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Maryemma Gra ham, Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, will offer a reading of her highly acclaimed and anticipated biography,  The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker.

Graham’s The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Marga ret Walker was published by Oxford University Press in December 2022. It is the first biography written about poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915–1998) and offers a comprehensive close reading of a p illar in American culture for a majority of the twentieth century. The biography includes eighty archival photos and documents and never-be fore examined personal papers and interviews with those who knew Walker personally. Well-known scholar, Paula J. Giddings, says this of the biog raphy: “At once a radiant memorial, a clear-eyed portrait and an i ntellectual history, Graham’s biography of writer Margaret Walker is an extraordinary study of an extraordinary woman.”

Thi s event receives support from the College of the Liberal Arts, Departmen t of English, and Department of African American Studies.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/maryemma-graham-reading/

LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR