Brit Bennett joins Columbus Metropolitan Library for a VIRTUAL Carnegie Author Series event to discuss her book "The Vanishing Half".
Join us for a free virtual author talk featuring Brit Bennett as she discusses her novel The Vanishing Half. Her lectures are as unflinching and memorable as her writing and give audiences a window into her craft while exploring broader themes of race and systemic injustice.
Virtual event hosted on the library's Crowdcast channel: www.crowdcast.io/e/caswithbritbennett
THE VANISHING HALF
After her 2016 dazzling coming of age story The Mothers, Brit Bennett returns the readers to California for another emotionally perceptive story in The Vanishing Half.
This engrossing page-turner, longlisted for both the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, explores the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions, desires, and expectations.
The Vanishing Half was selected as one of the New York Times 10 best books of 2020.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Before publishing her novels, Brit Bennett had already built an impressive platform as a social commentator. Her essay in Jezebel, following the Ferguson riots, was shared over a million times. Since then she has been invited to write several Op-Eds in the New York Times, and her work has also been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and The Paris Review.
While an undergraduate at Stanford, she won the Bocock/Guerard and Robert M. Golden Thesis prizes for her fiction. Earning her MFA at University of Michigan, she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/ Wright Award in College Writing.
The Carnegie Author Series is supported by NBC4.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual Event | Author Visit |
