Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks discussed her latest novel, Horse, with former Kentucky Poet Laureate, author, and poet Frank X Walker. Learn how their research into figures from Lexington’s history intersect, what they hope readers can learn from their writing, and much more. The video is available for viewing, above.
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Frank X Walker, the first African American writer to be named Kentucky Poet Laureate, is an artist and educator. He has published eleven collections of poetry, including Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems and Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, which received an NAACP Image Award and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book Award. The recipient of the Thomas D. Clark Award for Literary Excellence, he is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets.
Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders.
