University of Houston Law Center Presents: Alex Heard
Sep 14 2010 7:00 pm
Co-Sponsors the UH Graduate College of Social Work, the UH Department of History, the UH African American Studies Program, and the UH Law Center present a speaking engagement by Alex Heard, author of The Eyes of Willie McGee.
Critically acclaimed author Alex Heard will discuss his new book, The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South, on Tuesday, September 14 at 7PM at the University of Houston's Rockwell Pavilion in the M.D. Anderson Library.
Based on exhaustive documentary research—court transcripts, newspaper reports, archived papers, letters, FBI documents, and the recollections of family members on both sides—Mississippi native Alex Heard tells a moving and unforgettable story that evokes the bitter conflicts between black and white, North and South, in America.
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South is a gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South and a story whose haunting details echo the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird.
About the author: Alex Heard is the editorial director of Outside magazine. He has worked as an editor and writer at The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Wired, and The New Republic, and is the author of Apocalypse Pretty Soon. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Location:
- Street:
- UH Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library
- Additional:
- 4800 Calhoun Road 2nd Floor
- City:
- Houston ,
- Province:
- Texas
- Postal Code:
- 77004
- Country:
- United States
