Nathan McCall to Speak at Norfolk State University

 

Norfolk, Va. — Nathan McCall, author of the New York Times bestseller, Makes Me Wanna Holler, is scheduled to speak at Norfolk State University at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, at the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center. McCall will discuss his personal life experiences and encourage students to use their time at Norfolk State to advance themselves rather than taking their education for granted. A book signing will follow McCall’s presentation.

McCall has served as a reporter for The Virginian-Pilot, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Washington Post, where he worked until taking a leave of absence to write his best selling memoir, Makes Me g Black Man in America, which in addition to being a New York Times bestseller, won the Blackboard Book of the Year Award for 1995. McCall's second publication, released in 1997, is a series of personal essays titled, What's Going On.

 Now McCall has made his fiction debut with Them, a timely and penetrating story that is expected to generate the same cultural impact as his nonfiction work. Them was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of 2007. The Georgia Center for the Book, the Writer's Institute of Georgia Perimeter College and the Chattahoochee Review recently nominated Them as one of 10 finalists for the 2008 Townsend Prize for Fiction, which is awarded to an outstanding novel or short-story collection published by a Georgia writer during the past two years.

Currently, McCall serves as a visiting lecturer in the African American Studies Department at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. For more information, call 823-8373.