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Book in Common Author Visit: Main Event (submit a question for the author)
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024, 7:30–9 p.m.
Laxson Auditorium
$25 or free for students
The main event for Clint Smith's visit to campus is a conversation between Smith, Dean Tracy Butts, and Professor Nathaniel Heggins Bryant on April 11, 7:30 p.m. at Laxson Auditorium. Tickets are $25 or free for Butte College and Chico State students. Please submit a question that you would like Dean Butts or Professor Heggins Bryant to ask Clint Smith. About the author: Clint Smith is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellerHow the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. Clint Smith has also written two books of poetry, both nominated as finalists for an NAACP Image Award—the New York Times bestselling collection Above Ground and Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic.