Author Lorene Cary will lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. Her talk is titled "What's the story? Memoir, History and Mystery." This talk is free and open to the public.
Cary's first book, published by Knopf in 1991, was Black Ice, a memoir of her years first as a black female student, and then teacher, at St. Paul's, an exclusive New England boarding school. Black Ice was chosen as a Notable Book for 1992 by the American Library Association. Cary was graduated from St. Paul's School in 1974 and received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Currently a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a 1998 recipient of the Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Cary has lectured throughout the U.S.
Cary's visit is sponsored by the departments of Africana studies, government, and women's studies; the office of the President; the VPAA/Dean of the Faculty; the Kirkland Endowment; and the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture. For more information, please call the Kirkland Project at 315-859-4288.
