Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert
š Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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“Rembert was from a family of field labourers in Cuthbert, Georgia and taught himself to paint at the age of 51 using leather tooling skills he learned in prison. In the preface, he writes that he had been scared to draw attention to what happened to him in Cuthbert during his lifetime, and so he only composed his memoir as he was dying. It’s a wrenching tale told in a very direct and touching way. The book also includes pictures of his paintingsāof cotton fields, of his mother giving him away as a baby.” Read more...
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