Margo Jefferson Craft of Creative Nonfiction—Hybrid Forms: Criticism and Memoir

In this talk, Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic, Margo Jefferson will discuss ways in which a writer can join the strategies and demands of critical prose to the intimate experiments of memoir.

Margo Jefferson has written two books: On Michael Jackson (2005) and Negroland: A Memoir (2015). Negroland received the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobigraphy, the Heartland Prize, and the Bridge International Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.

This event is free to attend and open to the public. For full event details and updates, visit www.sarahlawrence.edu/news-events/events/2017-2018/2018-04-19-mfa_writing_program_-eid220270.html