BRATTLEBORO — Amherst College professor Judith Frank will explore the unique approaches taken by Edward P. Jones in writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World, in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on June 6 at 7 p.m.
Frank's talk, “The Known World and the Literary Character,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. (This talk was rescheduled from March 7.)
The Known World, which won the 2004 Pulitzer for fiction, has been described as “a masterpiece that deserves a place in the American literary canon.”
In her talk, Frank will consider what the book's unusual approach to characterization can tell us about slavery, personhood, and novel-reading.
Brooks Memorial Library will have copies of the novel available for loan prior to the talk. For more information, call 802-254-5290 or visit www.brookslibraryvt.org.