Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration
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Natchez, MS 39120
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
Join the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration for a virtual reading and discussion with J. Drew Lanham. This event will take place at 1pm CT. Register here!
J. Drew Lanham
A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. He is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist, and an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University.
Nonfiction
Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Winner of the Southern Book Prize
This memoir is a riveting exploration of the contradictions of Black identity in the rural South, asking what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.”