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January 16, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

African-American Author Carole Ione
to Read from her Award-Winning Memoir at Smith

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-Noted author, playwright, director and psychotherapist Carole Ione will read from her memoir, "Pride of Family, Four Generations of American Women of Color," at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 4, in the Neilson Library Browsing Room at Smith College. Co-sponsored by the Departments of African-American Studies and English Language and Literature and the Women's Studies Program, this event is free and open to the public.


"Pride of Family," published in 1991, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and is on the New York Public Library's list of "25 Books to Remember." Ione's memoir was inspired by the 1868 diary of her great-grandmother, Frances Anne Rollin, author of both the earliest known diary written by a Southern black woman and the first full length biography by an African American.


Ione is also the playwright and director of the play "Njinga the Queen King," which premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in December of 1993. Her journals were published by Ballantine in "Private Pages: American Women's Diaries, 1830s -1970s." She travels extensively, giving readings and lectures and presenting workshops that focus on myth and memory, heritage and dreams.

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