Pear Cleage reading 'Till You Hear from Me' at Outwrite
05/20/2010 7:30 pm
05/20/2010 8:30 pm
Pearl Cleage reads Till You Hear from Me
at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Thrusday, May. 20, 2010
7:30 PM
Synopsis:
Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s
presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job,
thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington,
D.C.’s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts
overrun the West Wing. Adding to her woes, her father, the Reverend
Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon and self-described “foot
soldier for freedom,” is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed
YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new
era in American politics.
About the Author:
Pearl Cleage is the author of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to
Truth and Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot. An
accomplished Playwright, she teaches playwriting at Spelman College, is a
cofounder of the literary magazine Catalyst and writes a column
for the Atlanta Tribune. Ms. Cleage lives in Atlanta with her
husband. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day...is her first
novel.