Library Hosting Author Talk & Book-Signing Featuring GP Native Basker
Citizens are invited to meet author and Grants Pass native James Basker for a book talk at the Grants Pass branch of Josephine Community Library this weekend.
The signing of Basker's Library of America book "Black Writers of the Founding Era" is set for Sunday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the branch located at 200 NW C Street.
Featuring more than 120 writers, this anthology reveals the Black experience in the turbulent decades of the American Revolution and shines a spotlight on both enslaved and free individuals -- men and women, loyalists and patriots, Northerners and Southerners.
The book includes contributions from soldiers, sailors, painters, poets, preachers, cooks, farmers and artisans. "Black Writers of the Founding Era" can be placed on hold for checkout at the library in various formats.
James Basker is president and CEO of the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a proud graduate of Grants Pass High School.
As president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute since 1997, Basker has overseen the development of major history education initiatives including a national network of affiliated schools, teacher seminars, traveling exhibitions and digital archives.
For more information about library programs and services, call (541)-476-0571, visit "josephinelibrary.org" or email "info@josephinelibrary.org."
Posted on 12/6/24 6:15AM by Sam Marsh
