Libertie rebels against her mother through her choices at college, her marriage and her rejection of a life of professional caring. Inside the Octavia Butler archives at the Huntington Library, Lynell George found a hidden world.How ‘Good Lord Bird’ brought Ethan Hawke and its young star to John Brown’s rebellion. ‘The Hate U Give’ novelist Angie Thomas talks new ‘Concrete Rose’ and planned Harry Potter-inspired fantasy.In a pandemic-scarred Old West, ‘Outlawed’ finds women in peril and fighting back.After ‘Homegoing,’ Yaa Gyasi reveals how she found her way to ‘Transcendent Kingdom’.To heighten the drama, the book is set 20 years earlier than McKinney Steward’s own career, beginning the action in the Civil War. Catherine Sampson, and how her life is shaped by her mother’s relentless need to heal, even when the task is impossible or the cost is steep. The novel became “Libertie,” which tells the first-person story of Libertie, the daughter of McKinney Steward-inspired character Dr. While Greenidge was inspired by McKinney Steward’s incredible life to write a novel, her focus at the museum on honoring ordinary people - rather than history-making trailblazers and pioneers - shaped the book’s attention to the details of everyday life then, too. When Kaitlyn Greenidge learned about Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the third Black woman to earn a medical degree in America, she was working at a historical site in Brooklyn that seeks to preserve the daily lives of free Blacks in the 19th century.
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