Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, will visit Notre Dame of Maryland University on Thursday, April 4, 2024. This evening lecture is free and open to all members of the greater Baltimore community.
Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of seventeen books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; The Dew Breaker; Claire of the Sea Light; and The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist for Criticism.