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2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist
"Intriguing and entertaining
He endured forty years in jails
a princess desperate to escape the clutches of her abusive family and soon-to-be husband
adjustments they faced upon finally entering the workforce
The Promise of Language: A Memoir Entertainment_Gift_Guide 2022 Chautauqua Prize FinalistRecounting a lifeand languageby an esteemed scholar of African American rhetoric. Finalist for Foreword Indies Book Awards in the Autobiography Memoir category! Featured in 2026 AUPress Book, Jacket, and Journal Show! In this powerful coming of age memoir, author, scholar, and linguist Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his earliest days in the segregated New York City public schools of the 1950s and '60s
