This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the second event of this incredible program for "A Reading from Jake Lamar's Play "Brothers in Exile." Jake will read from his play, "Brothers in Exile," which is about the complex relationship between three African American authors---Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Chester Himes---in Paris in the 1950s. This event has been sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Biography:
Jake Lamar was born in 1961 and grew up in the Bronx, New York. After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in American History and Literature, he spent six years writing for Time Magazine. Jake has lived in Paris since 1993.
Jake Lamar is the author of a memoir, six novels, numerous essays, reviews and short stories and, most recently, a play. He is a recipient of the Lyndhurst Prize (for his first book, Bourgeois Blues), a prestigious Centre National du Livre grant (for his novel Posthumous), France’s Grand Prix for best foreign thriller (for Nous Avions un Rêve, the French translation of his novel The Last Integrationist), and a Beaumarchais grant for his play Brothers in Exile. He has worked as literary consultant at the MC93 Theater in Bobigny and has taught creative writing at French universities and at libraries and high schools in Paris’s working-class suburbs. In September 2013, he became an instructor in Cedar Crest College's Pan European MFA program.