A Reading by Novelist and Playwright Lorene
Cary
Hosted by Creative Writing and the Department
English Department
Thursday, April 29th at 7:00 P.M.
Zoom
link: https://hav.to/821
Lorene Cary will read from her care-taking
memoir Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century (Norton). The
narrative travels through five generations to find the roots of family love and
rupture. In 2021, it was commissioned as a play for Arden Theater. Her play
about Harriet Tubman, My General Tubman, premiered in 2020. Cary’s non-fiction
includes her memoir Black Ice and stories for young readers titled Free! Great
Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad. Her novel The Price of a
Child was chosen as the first One Book One Philadelphia offering. Cary has
written scripts for videos at The President's House exhibit on Independence
Mall that shows the lives of nine enslaved Africans who worked in the House
next to the Liberty Bell. For 25 years Cary has taught at the University of
Pennsylvania. In 1998 she founded Art Sanctuary to enrich urban Philadelphia
with the excellence of Black arts.