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Nationally recognized essayist and American culture critic Gerard Early to give public lecture

by Sandra Gilderhus
March 10, 2005

Gerard Early will give a lecture "Why we should remember the Korean War" at St. Olaf College in Holland Hall, room 501, March 10 at 7 p.m. Early a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has been nominated twice for the Grammy Award in the category of Best Album Notes for "Yes I Can: The Sammy Davis, Jr., Story" (2000) and "Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance" (2001). At present Early is at work on a book about African Americans and the Korean War.

Other books by Early include: "Daughter: On Family and Fatherhood" (1994), "One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture" (1994), and "How the War in the Streets is Won: Poems on the Quest of Love and Faith" "The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture" (this won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism), and its sequel "Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture" (1989). The lecture is free and open to the public.

Contact Sandra Gilderhus at 507-646-3032 or gilderhu@stolaf.edu.