![]() ![]() The Pulitzer committee described Chasing Me to My Grave-as “a searing first person illustrated account of an artist’s life during the 1950s and 1960s, in an unreconstructed corner of the Deep South.” Excerpted in Harvard Magazine last fall, it tells the real-life story of Rembert, a self-taught painter born to Georgia field laborers who joined the civil rights movement as a teenager. ’07, won for her work as a critic at large for the New York Times. Writer and scholar Salamishah Tillet, Ph.D. ’95, was honored with a Pulitzer Prize on Monday (Rembert, who died in 2021, was named posthumously as co-winner of the prize). ![]() For her as-told-to biography of the late artist Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, Erin D. ![]()
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