Book by Hecimovich earns extensive review

A book by Furman University English Professor Gregg Hecimovich earned extensive commentary in The New York Review of Books. “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” released in 2023, uncovers the true identity and life story of the author of “The Bondwoman’s Narrative,” the first novel believed to be written by a Black woman. In Brenda Wineapple’s analysis of Hecimovich’s book, she wrote, “[Hecimovich] approaches the mystery of the bondwoman as a kind of puzzle, pieces of which were strewn from North Carolina to New Jersey” on his quest “to shed light on those Black people who had been forced to live and labor in the shadows of others and had died unknown, their stories not just unwritten but unremembered.”

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