Lives: Jamal Joseph on Panther Baby, Luisita Lopez Torregrosa on A Memoir of Love and Revolution and Joe Mozingo on An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family
Saturday, Nov. 17, 1:30 p.m., Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Jamal Joseph
Jamal Joseph’s memoir, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention (Algonquin, $23.95) chronicles his odyssey from the street of 60s Harlem as a Black Panther and a stint on Rikers Island at sixteen years old, to a professorship at Columbia—the same school he once exhorted student to burn to the ground. “An inspiring, unapologetic account of transformation.”—Booklist. Joseph is professor and Chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and the author of the interactive biography of Tupac Shakur, Tupac Shakur Legacy. He was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award in the Best Song category.
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa depicts a friendship between two women that becomes much more in Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25.00) A successful editor of a major newspaper, Torregrosa left everything for love, but also found herself in the midst of revolution in the Philippines during the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. “. . . Torregrosa fashions in her oblique and beautiful fashion, the two women could never really acknowledge their love publicly, underscoring a sad truth to this memorable work."—Publishers Weekly. Torregrosa, a correspondent for Politics Daily, is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune and NYTimes.com global editions and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times Op-Ed page.
Joe Mozingo
Growing up, Joe Mozingo heard many stories about where his father’s family was from—Italy, Hungary, the Basque Country. Then one day, a college professor told him his name came from Africa. That sent Joe, a blue-eyed white man, off on a journey to find the truth of his family roots. That journey is recounted in The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, Our Search for Family (Free Press, $25.99). Mozingo is a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won a Robert F. Kennedy Award for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and helped lead a Miami Herald reporting team whose investigation into the crash of the space shuttle Columbia was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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