The book details her life in Baltimore as a child, who lost her parents at age four. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award. Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of An American Pilgrimage received critical acclaim, winning both the Robert F. Today, historians and researchers consider Proud Shoes a classic in African American genealogy and a foreshadowing of the form and style of the contemporary American memoir.Ī second autobiographical work by Murray was first published posthumously in 1987. Here is somebody walking in America in proud shoes." Benet had personally reviewed and encouraged Murray’s writings before she decided to make law school a priority.Ī beautifully written work of creative nonfiction, rich with breathtaking imagery and metaphors, Proud Shoes is fortified by Murray’s years of extensive field research in state archives, historical societies, the National Archives, and oral history interviews with her two aunts. Murray originally derived this title from the esteemed poet and novelist Stephen Vincent Benet, who critiqued the poetry of Paul Engles: "its clear incisive speech cuts deep into native ground.
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