Lorene Cary, celebrated American author, will discuss the topics of her books and latest work, Black Ice, on Thursday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial at Union College.
Her talk, part of the College's Perspectives at the Nott lecture series, is free and open to the public.
Black Ice, Cary's latest novel, is a memoir of her years as the first black female student, and then teacher, at St. Paul's, a New England Boarding School. Race, the lives of women, education and growing up, are just a few of the themes in her novels.
She is also founder of the nonprofit program Art Sanctuary for African American Arts and Culture.
Cary has been given the Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching from the University of Pennsylvania, and has been a contributing editor for Newsweek and an associate editor at TV Guide. She has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, American Visions, Essence, and the Philadelphia magazine.
After receiving her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978, she won a Thouron Fellowship for British-U.S. student exchange and studied at Sussex University. She has received Doctorates in Humane Letters from Colby College in Maine, Keene State College in New Hampshire, and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.