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• Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 2022

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Unvarnished literary and visual power. -- Carol Anderson, author of White Rage A love story...[that] documents racial and economic violence under white supremacy as a living history. It also gives us an example of how to live without bitterness or seeking revenge. -- Chicago Review of Books A profoundly moving, devastatingly painful, and wonderfully transformative experience. -- Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield A stunning portrait of hope in the face of evil, barbarity, and racism. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) An ultimately uplifting journey from the ugliness of virulent racism to the beauty of art. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) At turns harrowing and haunting...And through it all, joy, no matter how elusive, never disappears. -- Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine Narrator Dion Graham...has an aged, comfortable tone, as if Winfred is sitting around the table telling the whole family his life story. Though Karen Chilton, who portrays Patsy, the love of Winfred's life, delivers fewer passages, both voices--heartfelt and down-home--complement each other. -- AudioFile Rembert...reveal[s] truths about the human struggle that are transcendent, to evoke an understanding of human dignity that is broad and universal. -- Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author Rembert's account reminds us that it is in the remembering of the past that we keep it from becoming prologue. -- Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Felon Rembert's self-portrait in word and image belongs in every library. -- Booklist (starred review) Winfred Rembert paints a world too little depicted and a reality we can't afford to forget. -- Albert Woodfox, author of Solitary

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Winfred Rembert (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: All Me and Ashes to Ashes. In the last decades of his life, he lived and worked in New Haven, Connecticut. www.winfredrembert.com. Erin I. Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. She specializes in ethics and criminal law and is the author of The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (Harvard University Press, 2018). erinikelly.com BRYAN STEVENSON is the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Since graduating from Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, he has secured relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color. He has won numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Dion Graham, from HBO's The Wire, also narrates The First 48 on A&E. A multiple Audie Award-winning narrator and critically acclaimed actor, he has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. Karen Chilton is a multi-talented author, actor, and audiobook narrator, as well as a freelance writer, script writer, and librettist. She wrote the biography Hazel Scott about the trailblazing jazz pianist and coauthored I Wish You Love with legendary jazz vocalist Gloria Lynne. Her acting credits include It's Kind of a Funny Story and Half Nelson. She won a New Professional Theatre Writers award for her play Convergence and an Audiofile Golden Earphones Award for her narration of Karolyn Smardz Frost's I've Got a Home in Glory Land. She has also narrated Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Jennifer Berry Hawes' Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness.

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