Saidiya Hartman, who grew up in Brooklyn, holds degrees from Wesleyan and Yale and is on the faculty at Columbia University. She is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval; Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America; and Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route, an excerpt of which won the 2007 Narrative Prize. The recipient of a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, she lives in New York.
Photograph © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route, an essay, in Winter 2007