Book Discussion of Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly, with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). Chasing Me to My Grave won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Winfred Rembert was an artist who painted scenes from his life in Cuthbert Georgia onto leather. His story details the hardship of his life in Cuthbert, his being abandoned by his mother, his being sentenced to a chain gang, and his near lynching. The shining light in his life was his marriage to Patsy, who he proposed to while still a prisoner. Winfred and Patsy moved to New Haven, CT, where encouraged by Patsy, Winfred began to seriously work on his art. Winfred Rembert passed away in 2021. The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued Saturday Dec. 3 rd at the Wilson Library. Twelve of us met in person and one member, Marilyn, even join
The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series meets approximately once every six weeks at the Courtland S. Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in New Haven, CT.