Erin Kelly
ERIN KELLY (2021)
CHASING mE TO MY GRAVE: AN ARTIST’S MEMOIR OF THE JIM CROW SOUTH
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 2022.
This is a biography of the artist Winfred Rembert, who collaborated in its writing with the author Erin Kelly. Rembert was born to a family of field workers n Georgia. He was put to work in the fields two days a week from the age of six. This considerably held back his education. He became involved in the civil rights movement and survived a near-lynching at tshe hands of the police. He was imprisoned, and spent seven years on prison chain gangs.
In his fifties, with the encouragement of his wife Patsy, he took up painting - using leather as a medium, and applying leather working skills which he had learned in prison. His paintings have become acclaimed, achieving prices of over $300,000 at auction.
One of the members of the Pulitzer Prize Committee wrote that "[Rembert's] life's story, and the creative, compelling way it unfolded, will live with me forever, and the Pulitzer for this work will serve as a reminder of the magnificence and artistic genius that can emanate from racism and incarceration."
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Erin Kelly is a Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. She obtained her degree at Stanford University in 1984, her master’s degree from Columbia University, and her PhD from Harvard University. She has written widely on criminal justice.
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