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From Judge to Bestselling Author, With Help From Tom Wolfe and Rita Mae Brown
For retired Virginia Circuit Court Judge Martin Clark, a 1984 graduate of the University of Virginia’s School of Law, law was a fallback career, a parent-pleasing choice he made after he found nobody wanted to hire him to teach creative writing.
She Wrote ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ and Co-Produced the Hit Hulu Series
Georgia Hunter’s journey to becoming a New York Times bestselling author and co-producer of the Hulu series based on her book, “We Were the Lucky Ones,” began with an English paper assignment when she was 15.
The Educator’s Bookshelf — A List of Must Reads from U.Va. Professors
For any student unsure of what their first post-finals read should be, look no further than the favorite books of these four academics.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks at UVA on the Future of Reparations and the Power of Writing
Author, journalist and activist Ta-Nehisi Coates, spoke on Friday, March 8, to a UVA audience and to attendees of the ninth annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society hosted by the University’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
Poetic Unity: 'A Standing Witness' Examines Our Nation’s Recent History Through a Cycle of Songs
Rita Dove was on sabbatical from the University of Virginia English department when Richard Danielpour emailed the U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. The Grammy Award-winning composer wanted to discuss collaborating on A Standing Witness, a cycle of songs that covers 50 years of American history, with original music set to poems as lyrics. The project was no small task. And Dove says that, at first glance, it seemed outside her wheelhouse.
History and Poetry Meet in ‘A Standing Witness’
Some of the most important events of the past six decades will play out in the University of Virginia’s Old Cabell Hall on March 21 and 23.
William Dozier’s Love for Books Has Given Him Internet Fame
Those who have recently turned to social media, especially “BookTok,” for book recommendations might recognize the face of William Dozier.
7 Poetry Collections About the Complexities of Black Womanhood
All of these poetry collections endeavor to answer the question: What does it mean to be both Black and a Woman? All of the answers are different—Black womanhood is multifaceted and finding a safe passage through it is the challenge of a lifetime.
The Poetry of Love
This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry of Love’. One of the challenges of the course was how to define “love”.
Winning ‘Big’: UVA Grad Gets Caldecott Medal
By the time she got the call, Vashti Harrison had given up hope.
On Poe’s 215th Birthday, UVA Special Collections Preserves His Spirit
Once upon a midnight dreary, while Edgar Allan Poe pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore in his room on the Range, did he foresee his future standing in literature?