{"id":28716,"date":"2023-11-01T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=28716"},"modified":"2023-11-01T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:34:18","slug":"book-by-gregg-hecimovich-draws-praise-in-wapo-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/book-by-gregg-hecimovich-draws-praise-in-wapo-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Book by Gregg Hecimovich draws praise in WAPO review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review by Tope Folarin in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/books\/2023\/11\/01\/hannah-craft-gregg-hecimovich\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> describes a new book by Gregg Hecimovich, a Furman University English professor. &#8220;The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman&#8217;s Narrative&#8221; chronicles the life of Hannah Bond, the first known African American female novelist. Through decades of meticulous research, Hecimovich identifies the novel&#8217;s true authorship and expands on &#8220;The Bondwoman&#8217;s Narrative&#8221; written by Hannah Crafts (Bond&#8217;s pen name) and published by Harvard&#8217;s Henry Louis Gates nearly a century and a half later.<\/p>\n<p>Folarin said Hecimovich&#8217;s &#8220;Life and Times&#8221; is a &#8220;tale about overcoming insurmountable odds,&#8221; and books like his &#8220;are a vital resource for readers who wish to engage with themselves and the wider world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tope Folarin, author and executive director of the Institute for Policy Studies, says Hecimovich&#8217;s new book is a &#8220;vital resource for readers who wish to engage with themselves and the wider world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":28718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,1943],"tags":[2363,1110],"class_list":["post-28716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-in-the-news","category-the-washington-post","tag-first-black-female-novelist","tag-slavery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}