{"product_id":"chasing-me-to-my-grave-an-artists-memoir-of-the-jim-crow-south-9781635576597","title":"Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e#1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e BookPage\u003c\/i\u003e, Barnes \u0026amp; Noble, Hudson Booksellers, \u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e, and more * Amazon Editors' Pick * Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction Longlist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.\" --Bryan Stevenson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy's encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChasing Me to My Grave \u003c\/i\u003epresents Rembert's breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgia's Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. As he pays tribute, exuberant and heartfelt, to Cuthbert's Black community and the people, including Patsy, who helped him to find the courage to revisit a traumatic past, Rembert brings to life the promise and the danger of Civil Rights protest, the brutalities of incarceration, his search for his mother's love, and the epic bond he found with Patsy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivid, confrontational, revelatory, and complex, \u003ci\u003eChasing Me to My Grave \u003c\/i\u003eis a searing memoir in prose and painted leather that celebrates Black life and summons readers to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinfred Rembert\u003c\/b\u003e (1945-2021) was an artist from Cuthbert, Georgia. His paintings on carved and tooled leather have been exhibited at museums and galleries across the country, and compared to the work of Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Horace Pippin. Rembert was honored by the Equal Justice Initiative in 2015, awarded a United States Artists Barr Fellowship in 2016, and is the subject of two award-winning documentary films, \u003ci\u003eAll\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMe \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAshes to Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e. In the last decades of his life, he lived and worked in New Haven, Connecticut. He was posthumously awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for \u003ci\u003eChasing Me To My Grave\u003c\/i\u003e. The Winfred Rembert Estate is co-represented by Fort Gansevoort and Hauser \u0026amp; Wirth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eErin I. Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e earned her PhD from Harvard and is the Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. She specializes in ethics and criminal law and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Blame: Rethinking\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePunishment and Responsibility \u003c\/i\u003e(Harvard University Press, 2018). She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for \u003ci\u003eChasing Me to My Grave\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eerinikelly.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50603462885650,"sku":"9781635576597","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f765fac7-a9f2-453f-bd03-41e418d27f86.jpg?v=1732246610","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chasing-me-to-my-grave-an-artists-memoir-of-the-jim-crow-south-9781635576597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}