
20th Century Jewish Lives
These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
An award-winning writer, journalist, lecturer and writing workshop leader, Elayne Clift’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon.com, and numerous magazines, periodicals and anthologies. She is a regular columnist for several New England newspapers and a reviewer for The New York Journal of Books.
The author of two memoirs, two books of poetry, three short story collections, a travel memoir, and three edited anthologies, her poem “I Listen and My Heart is Breaking” was set to music and performed by the world-renowned a cappella group Sweet Honey n the Rock. A long-time Vermont Humanities discussion leader, she offers writing workshops at various venues ranging from conferences, libraries, and arts programs to the destination spa, Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico.
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These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
The books in this series, comprised of Pulitzer-winning reporting and research, dig deep, revealing facts and stories that continue to be relevant years after they were brought to the surface.
Personal writing by African-American authors can transcend self-reflection, becoming meditations on history, justice, and freedom from oppression.
This series pairs Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful history of this Great Migration with fiction and memoir that illuminate the north/south divide.
This series features a history of the era alongside texts that have come to define the Harlem Renaissance.
A multi-session group is the ideal environment in which to relish these classic works of literature of a certain size and heft.
Each book in this series is a Pulitzer-winning work of fiction, with portions based on one person’s real life story.
Established in 1968, England’s Booker Prize is awarded annually to a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa who has written the year’s best novel according to a panel of critics, writers, and academics.
A book of short stories, a memoir and two novels bring us to present day consideration of migration, immigration and refuge.
Travel through Canada with four critically acclaimed books that make manifest Canada’s cultural diversity.
These books take the reader deeply inside the world of someone experiencing life differently from the rest of us. Topics include bipolar disorder, physical disability, and Alzheimer s disease.
This series examines families displaced by the dictatorial regimes of Trujillo and Castro, exploring the complicated, ongoing relationships that those who come to the United States have with their home countries and cultures.