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Lalita Tademy: Author of Cane River and
Red River
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LALITA
TADEMY Lalita Tademy's first novel, Cane River,
is a provocative and beautifully written reconstruction of the history
of one American family. It explores racism and slavery through the saga
of four generations of women who make hard choices in the face of unimaginable
loss, secure their identity and independence, and, ultimately, go on to
inspire future generations.
Cane River begins in slavery, sweeps through
the Civil War, and brings us into the pre-Civil Rights South. The book,
based on Tademy's family history, garnered critical acclaim and became
a New York Times bestseller. The San Francisco Chronicle
said Tademy had written "the quiet unmapped stories that make up history,"
and Oprah made Cane River one of the most popular picks of her
book club.
Lalita Tademy's own life has been a remarkable journey. Before becoming an author, she was a Vice President at Sun Microsystems. Featured in Fortune's "People on the Rise" list, she was named, in 1998, an African-American Innovator in the New Millennium at the Silicon Valley Tech Museum of Innovation. But her own interest in her family's roots, and the ongoing issues of racism and women's empowerment, plus her love of writing, led her to focus all of her energies on a writing career. America may have lost a great business person, but it gained an important new literary voice. Tademy's new novel, Red River, is set in The Bottom, a poor settlement in Louisiana, during the turbulent years of Reconstruction. It chronicles the newly freed men whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of emancipation—proud men and families who fought for their liberties, amidst tensions and even a massacre, to find the strength to push on. It debuted on The New York Times bestseller list. What does Lalita Tademy talk about?
Giving
History A Heartbeat: The Cane River Journey Join
one of America's most important new novelists as she discusses the personal and
literary journey that culminated in the critically acclaimed novel, Cane River.
With warmth, humor, and honesty, she explores the issues that are at once deeply
personal, as well as broadly relevant to America today. The audience will gain
a better understanding of their country, the history of its marginalized peoples,
themselves, and the way that a personal vision can be turned into a powerful literary
accomplishment.
Stepping Into The Void:
From Corporate Executive to Best-selling Novelist
In this talk, Lalita Tademy explores the personal choices
and life journey that saw her on the corporate fast track at Sun Microsystems,
and the decision she made to leave it all behind to pursue her dream of
becoming a writer. She discusses the frightening and dramatic leap from
corporate executive to hermit writer, and how she used some of the same
common sense methods to develop her craft creatively as she had used them
to develop technically and organizationally in the corporate world.
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