Book review: Pulitzer winner about chain gangs, lynching, black history and the Civil Rights era
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by the late Winfred Rembert is a life story about a nobody becoming a somebody.
In short, it recounts how Rembert grew up in Georgian cotton fields, survived years on chain gangs and became a world-renowned leather artist.
The Bloomsbury Publishing memoir was told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly and scooped the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
So keep reading to find out more about this award-winning story, what makes it interesting and how it can help us with our own creating …
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