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| Event Flyer |
Baton Rouge, La. – Natalie
Baszile, author of the Louisiana based novel “Queen Sugar” will hold a book
signing and presentation on March 19 at 4 p.m. in the John B. Cade Library on
the campus of Southern University.
Baszile is an award-winning
author whose works have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine; The Rumpus.net; the
Lenny Letter; and The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9.
Her book, Queen Sugar, has been adapted
into a television series by writer/director Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey for the
OWN television network. The book was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, was
listed on the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize and was named one of the Best
Books of 2014 by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Natalie earned an M.A. in
Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of the Warren Wilson
College’s MFA Program for Writers.
Copies of the Queen Sugar novel
will be available for purchase during the event.
The book signing, which is free
and open to the public, is one of several events being held during the Southern
University Ag Center’s 10th Annual Louisiana Small Farmers
Conference.
For additional information about
the conference, visit https://suagcenter.blogspot.com/2020/01/su-ag-center-set-for-10th-annual.html.
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