{"id":354,"date":"2022-09-28T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=354"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:34:18","slug":"kiese-laymon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2019\/kiese-laymon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiese Laymon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/klaymon_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Kiese Laymon\" class=\"wp-image-327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/klaymon_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/klaymon_lg-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>Heavy: An American Memoir<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keynote: October 10, 7:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiese Laymon returns to the symposium as the keynote author to read from&nbsp;<em>Heavy: An American Memoir&nbsp;<\/em>about his life growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, in which he confronts racism, sexism, sexual abuse, child abuse, and many other forms of violence.&nbsp;<em>Heavy&nbsp;<\/em>is the winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction, LA Times Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and Audible\u2019s Audiobook of the Year. It has also received accolades from the The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Library Journal, The Washington Post, Southern Living, and Entertainment Weekly among others. Laymon is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. His two previous books are the novel&nbsp;<em>Long Division<\/em> and the memoir&nbsp;<em>How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kieselaymon.com\/\">Kiese Laymon&#8217;s author site<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/10\/13\/657109487\/heavy-kiese-laymons-memoir-examines-how-people-absorb-trauma\">Interview on NPR<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/31\/books\/review-heavy-american-memoir-kiese-laymon.html\">New York Times Book Review<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/welty\/authors19\/covers\/heavy_lg.jpg\" alt=\"heavy sm\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 Keynote<br \/>\nauthor of Heavy: An American Memoir<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}