Seattle Reads 'My Jim': Contemporary African-American Writing
Coates read from "The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood" and Locke read from "Black Water Rising." Coates, a former staff writer at The Village Voice and Time, has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications. Locke has worked in film and television for more than ten years. She has written movie scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, and Twentieth Century Fox, as well as television pilots for HBO and Dreamworks. This event is part of Seattle Reads "My Jim," a program of the Washington Center for the Book at The Seattle Public Library.