Novelist Marita Golden to Deliver Peple Lecture at University of Richmond
February 10, 2006
Novelist, essayist and teacher Marita Golden will deliver the 17th-annual Edward C. and Mary S. Peple Lecture Feb. 21 at the University of Richmond.
Golden, whose novels include “Long Distance Life,” “A Woman’s Place,” “And Do Remember Me” and “The Edge of Heaven,” will speak on “The Writer’s Voice and Authority, ‘Who Said You Couldn’t Say That?’”
The event, sponsored by the Friends of Boatwright Library, is free and open to the public. It will take place in Jepson Hall, room 118, at 7:30 p.m. A reception and book signing will follow in the Heilig Meyers Lounge.
Golden has edited “Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex”; with Susan Shreve, “Skin Deep: Black and White Women on Race”; and with E. Lynn Harris “Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing.”
As memoirist and essayist, Golden has written “Migrations of the Heart,” “Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World” and “A Miracle Everyday: Triumph and Transformation in the Lives of Single Mothers.” Her most recent nonfiction work is “Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey through the Color Complex.”
She has taught writing at a number of college and universities, including George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University. She received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from the University of Richmond May 1998.
Golden founded and served as the first president of the Washington, D.C-based African American Writers Guild. Since 1990, she has headed the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, which presents the nation’s only national fiction award for college writers of African descent.
The Peple Library Lectureship annually brings to the University of Richmond nationally recognized librarians and scholars to speak with faculty, students, alumni and friends. This year’s lecture is in collaboration with the University Museums’ Margaret May Dashiell Exhibition.
For further information, call the library administration office at (804) 289-8454.