Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are some of Maine’s most celebrated literary figures. Join us for this talk with creator and host of the award-winning podcast Dead Writers Tess Chakkalakal to virtually tour the homes of these Maine writers and learn of their history, decor, gardens, and maybe even ghosts that bring these writers and their work back to life.
Tess Chakkalakal teaches African-American and American Literature at Bowdoin College. Her new book A Matter of Complexion will be released on February 4. You can order a copy here. She is also the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century American and co-editor of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs and Imperium in Imperio: A Critical Edition She is co-host and creator of the award-winning podcast Dead Writers: A Show About Great American Authors and Where They Lived. She lives in Brunswick, Maine.
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