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Author | Playwright | Lecturer | Advocate

Lorene
Cary

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"A thoroughly engaging memoir.… Cary invites readers into a complex extended family.… A distinctly American story."
 

Martha Anne Toll, NPR

Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

Praise & Reviews

"A profoundly moving, evocative work that puts a fully realized human face on the issue of slavery and its consequences.The Price of a Child marks the emergence of a powerful voice in American fiction."

 Paula L. Woods, Philadelphia Inquirer

The Price of a Child

“Engaging. . . . Cary creates characters with such full-bodied life that their predicaments remain vivid.” 

The New York Times Book Review

If Sons, Then Heirs

Appearances
 

Tuesday, 10/8, from 4-5pm

Podcast conversation on:

Changing the Conversation, Urban Strategy in the Present Tense

(A production of Drexel's Lindy Institute)

A conversation about #VoteThatJawn with Adam Barbanel-Fried, a leader in deep canvassing.

Saturday, 10/5, at 10am

Collingswood Book Festival

Near my grandmother's beloved house in West Collingswood, where she lived until she was 99 years old, I'll be delighted to read from Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century!

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Friday, 9/6, Time TBD

National Read a Book Day at Barnes & Noble. They're putting authors in the widow, reading. Happy for a chance to sit still and read!

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Friday, 7/19, at 10am

Rosenbach Museum and Library.

As part of the fascinating citywide Monument Lab, I get to share original Black Ice documents--after we see a first edition Phyllis Wheatley!

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Thursday, 3/21, 6:30 pm

Portland Opera Company

Jubilee! libretto Reading

Culmination of the week's libretto workshop with composer Damien Geter and Portland Opera Company's wonderful young singers who taught me so much as we read, discussed--and I rewrote like  jazz!

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Appearances

About Lorene Cary

 Lorene Cary is author of the memoirs Ladysitting and Black Ice, three novels, and a book for young readers. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and has written a one-act opera of Ladysitting and a play, My General Tubman. She lives in Philadelphia.

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