Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition
About this audiobook
The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker’s bestselling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South’s antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.
Weaving her own family’s oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker’s novel brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light. Jubilee churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.
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About the author
Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was one of America’s most popular and respected African American writers and scholars. Among the most formidable literary voices to emerge in the twentieth century, she will be remembered as one of the foremost transcribers of African American heritage.
Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother, and professor, is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, among many other honors. The author of twenty-eight books and a Grammy nominee for The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, she is the University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Robin Miles is a Golden Voice, Audiofile Magazine's top 30 voices in the U.S., whose numerous performing & directing awards include Audies, Earphones, and several 'Best of the Year' designations. She has narrated over 200 audiobooks, including best sellers, Cleopatra: A Life and The Warmth of Other Suns, in addition to museum installations and documentary films. She handles archaic historical fiction, SciFi/Fantasy, Romance, and poetry with equal agility and you will find her memorable work in almost all genres. Additional credits include Broadway's The Violet Hour, many Shakespeare and classic stage plays, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and National Geographic's Tales from the Wild. She is a graduate of Yale University (B.A.) and The Yale School of Drama (M.F.A.), and owns Voxpertise, Inc., a VO production company and voice training company in NYC.
