Ward is classically beautiful — delicate and golden-skinned with her hair hanging in long curls.
The town is important to Ward for another reason, though: Her great-grandfather Harry was the son of a white mother, Edna.
Ward borrowed her family’s complex racial history in writing “Sing, Unburied, Sing.” That family history tells us something about how Ward thinks about history and its relationship to her fiction.
The contours of Ward’s life were formed by two hurricanes.
In 1969, Hurricane Camille struck, marking a terrible watershed in Black life on the Gulf Coast.
Persons:
Ward, Black, wilder, ”, Brett Favre, Harry, Edna, Regina N, Bradley, She’s, Annis, Mitchell S, Jackson, Eddie S, Glaude Jr, Reagan, Hurricane Camille, Martin Luther King Jr, Camille
Organizations:
Hall of Fame, Gulf Coast, Bay Area
Locations:
Ward’s, Hurricane, Gulf, Oakland, Calif, Los Angeles, Bay