The Friends Author Series Presents Farah Jasmine Griffin

The Ferguson Library will conclude its NEA Big Read program on Monday, November 1 at 6:30 p.m., with a Friends Author Series event featuring Farah Jasmine Griffin, Author of Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature. The event will take place at the Main Library, DiMattia Building, located at the corner of Bedford and Broad Streets, Stamford.
Registration is required to attend the in-person program. Register at the library's website at fergusonlibrary.org. The program will also be available to watch on Zoom; login information is also available on the library's website.

Ms. Griffin's appearance is the finale event to the Big Read program. Toni Morrison's Beloved
is the selected book for Stamford's 2021 NEA Big Read, a program of conversations, screenings, activities and gatherings focused on community-wide reading and appreciation of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel.

Farah Jasmine Griffin was the inaugural chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University, where she is also William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is the author of numerous books, including Read Until You Understand, and the recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. She also appears as a featured scholar in the documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.

Book sale and signing to follow the presentation.

Note: Proof of COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test within 72 hours is required to attend programs in the Main Library Auditorium.

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. Generously supported by the Friends of the Ferguson Library and co-sponsored by Stamford Stands Against Racism and UConn Stamford.

(photo credit: Peggy Dillard Toone)