Interview with Jim Grimsley, May 9, 2016

Jim Grimsley was born in 1955 in North Carolina. He worked as a playwright for 7 Stages Theater for over 20 years and has written numerous semi-autobiographical novels including Winter Birds and Dream Boy. He is a Professor of Practice in the English and Creative Writing departments at Emory University. In this interview, Grimsley discusses his experience with school integration as he talks about recent memoir How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood.

2016-05-09

RBRL175OHD-028

86 minutes