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Brought to you by Tanner Humanities. This event is free\, but tickets are required.

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Jesmy n Ward\, celebrated as &ldquo\;the heir apparent to Toni Morrison&rdquo\; (LitHub) and one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation\, will deliver the 2025 David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and F ine Arts.

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Book signing to follow\, with sales by The King&rsquo\;s English Bookshop.

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War d is the author of Salvage the Bones (2011) and Sing\, Unburi ed\, Sing (2017)\, both winners of the National Book Award\, as well as editor of the influential anthology\, The Fire This Time: A New Gen eration Speaks About Race (2016). Her work explores the rural South\, race\, environmental justice\, and historical memory.

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Her most re cent novel\, Let Us Descend (2023)\, an Oprah Book Club pick\, wa s named one of the year&rsquo\;s best books by The Washington Post\, Time\ , The New Yorker\, and others. The title\, drawn from Dante&rsquo\;s Infer no\, reflects the novel&rsquo\;s engagement with history and spirit. NPR d escribed it as &ldquo\;the literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours.&rdquo\;

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Ward is professor of English and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University.

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T he David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts is administered by the Tanner Humanities Center in collaboration with the College of Humanities and the College of Fine Arts. The Gardner Lectur e was founded in the University of Utah Graduate School in honor of former President David Pierpont Gardner. The Gardner Lecture features distinguis hed scholars and artists from the humanities and the fine arts in alternat ing years. The lectureship is funded by the Tanner Lectures on Human Value s.

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The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the Unive rsity of Utah supports academic research\, public engagement\, and educati onal programming in the humanities. Views expressed in events and programm ing do not represent the official views of the Center or University.

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