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January 16, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
African-American Author
Carole Ione
to Read from her Award-Winning Memoir at Smith
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-Noted author, playwright,
director and psychotherapist Carole Ione will read from her memoir,
"Pride of Family, Four Generations of American Women of
Color," at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 4, in the Neilson Library
Browsing Room at Smith College. Co-sponsored by the Departments
of African-American Studies and English Language and Literature
and the Women's Studies Program, this event is free and open
to the public.
"Pride of Family," published in 1991, is a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year and is on the New York Public
Library's list of "25 Books to Remember." Ione's memoir
was inspired by the 1868 diary of her great-grandmother, Frances
Anne Rollin, author of both the earliest known diary written
by a Southern black woman and the first full length biography
by an African American.
Ione is also the playwright and director of the play "Njinga
the Queen King," which premiered at Brooklyn Academy of
Music's Next Wave Festival in December of 1993. Her journals
were published by Ballantine in "Private Pages: American
Women's Diaries, 1830s -1970s." She travels extensively,
giving readings and lectures and presenting workshops that focus
on myth and memory, heritage and dreams.
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