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Gregg Hecimovich, a professor of English at Furman University, will deliver a lecture on his biography, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman鈥檚 Narrative, on Monday, March 25, at 7:00 p.m. in Vaughan Auditorium, Robert Marks Hall. The Washington Post selected the biography as 鈥淥ne of the 10 Best Books of 2023,鈥� describing it as 鈥減art thriller, part mystery and part biography.鈥� The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Bondwoman鈥檚 Narrative, a manuscript discovered by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard scholar, was published in 2002. Believed to be the first novel written by an African American woman, it tells the story of a woman named Hannah who escapes from slavery in North Carolina and embarks on a journey to freedom. In his biography, Hecimovich identifies the author as Hannah Bond (later adopting the pen name Hannah Crafts), a slave to John Hill Wheeler of Murfreesboro, North Carolina. Through his research, Hecimovich highlights the influence of Chowan students residing at the Wheeler house on Hannah鈥檚 writing. A Hutchins Family Fellow at Harvard University, Hecimovich holds an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in English, from Vanderbilt University.