Bookworm, no. 44

Mobólúwajídìde D. Joseph reviews Howard Douglas McCurdy’s autobiography. Ray Reid reviews John MacLachlan Gray’s latest mystery. J.R. Patterson remembers Alice Munro. Poetry by Dorothy Nielsen.

May 21, 2024

∙ Paid

A Feathered Cap

Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon: The Autobiography of Dr. Howard D. McCurdy
Howard Douglas McCurdy, with George Elliott Clarke
Nimbus
324 pages, softcover

In February 2018, Howard Douglas McCurdy died at the age of seventy-nine. Seven months prior, the politician and activist had asked his protegé and friend George Elliott Clarke …

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