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Gregg Hecimovich
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Biographer and author of THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS (LA Times Book Award, Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award). Professor of English at Furman U and a Nonresident Fellow of the Hutchins Center at Harvard U.
Christy's former colleagues at Park Road Montessori hosted me for their Book Club tonight to discuss LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS. We celebrated the joys of teaching and collaboration. Thanks so much Heather Ruckterstuhl for organizing! I love Park Road teachers!
January 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS was honored at this year's MLA Book Awards Ceremony on January 9. Thank you to the readers and judges!

"Virtually every page contains brilliant insights about literacy, authorship, trauma, memory, language, and resistance."

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William Sanders Scarborough Prize Winners
2023Sampada Aranke, Ohio State University, Columbus, for Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power (Duke Univ. Press, 2023)Honorable mention: Gregg Hecimovich, Furman University, for The Life a...
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January 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We made the most of our Chapel Hill snow storm!
January 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Big thanks to NBCC critic, Elizabeth Taylor, for this review of 2024 biography finalist, including LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS: "tools of a gumshoe," "sensibilities of a literary scholar," "nuanced perspective of a historian," and "congeniality of a tour guide."

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January 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Grateful for family time over the holiday break! Back at it with an exciting new semester!
January 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM