Michener Fellowship, Walker is a Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature at Emerson College. His work has appeared in publications such as The Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, and Mother Jones, and it has been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays series. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a James A. Join us for a reading by author Jerald Walker from his book How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction and winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction.Īlong with the memoirs Street Shadows and The World in Flames, Jerald Walker is the author of How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, a Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction and winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. Picturing your Community Photography Project.Jacob Lawrence’s The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture.

The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler.The Lunder-Colville Chinese Art Collection.Jones Award for Most Outstanding Dedication to Students. His teaching honors include the Favorite Faculty Award and the Martha D. He also has been a Visiting Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT and in the MFA in Nonfiction Program at the University of Iowa. Prior to arriving at Emerson, he was an Associate Professor of English at Bridgewater State University. Walker's doctorate is in Interdisciplinary Studies, combining the fields of African American literature, African American history, and creative writing. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and James A. His latest book, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays was a Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. Winship Award for Nonfiction and named a Best Memoir of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, and The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult. Walker is the author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, recipient of the 2011 PEN New England/L.L. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Jerald Walker has published in magazines such as Creative Nonfiction, The Missouri Review, The Harvard Review, Mother Jones, The Iowa Review, and The Oxford American, and he has been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays.

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