Author, journalist, poet, and educator Clint Smith, best known for his book “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America,” will speak Oct. 14 at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Smith, Ph.D., will present a free reading at 4:15 p.m. in the Benes Rooms inside OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. His presentation – An Evening with Clint Smith: Stories, History, Culture – is the 2025-2026 Katherine Kearney Carpenter Lecture sponsored by the Ohio Wesleyan Department of English.
He is a staff writer for The Atlantic, as well as the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America.” The book earned the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was selected by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. An adaptation for young readers was released on Sept. 30.
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