{"id":855,"date":"2024-07-23T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=855"},"modified":"2024-10-05T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:01:08","slug":"maurice-carlos-ruffin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2024\/maurice-carlos-ruffin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Carlos Ruffin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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author of The American Daughters<\/em>
Keynote: October 24, 7:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maurice Carlos Ruffin returns as keynote author with his second novel, The American Daughters<\/em>. Set before, during, and long after the Civil War, the novel is an account of Ady, a young woman who was sold into slavery; escapes with her mother in an attempt to rejoin the Maroon community where she was born; is recaptured, raised and educated by her enslaver in New Orleans; works at an inn with free women of color; and becomes involved with an organization of resistance fighters and spies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times<\/em> praises The American Daughters<\/em> as a \u201cstirring new novel\u201d that joins the ranks of Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers, Kaitlyn Greenidge and Colson Whitehead to \u201creanimate a long-suppressed history through sweeping stories of people whose free labor built this country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruffin has previously published the novel We Cast A Shadow <\/em>and the story collection The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You.<\/em> A New Orleans native, Ruffin is a professor of Creative Writing at LSU, and he was the recipient of the 2023 Louisiana Writer Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n