THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FESTIVAL

Scholar and critically acclaimed author Ladee Hubbard created one of the most extraordinary families of American literature in her debut novel, The Talented Ribkins, which won the 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for debut fiction. In The Rib King, Hubbard’s new novel, we learn the truth behind the legend of the Ribkins’ paterfamilias, a man obscured by the same fantasies that shroud much of American history. C. Morgan Babst, New Orleans essayist and author of The Floating World, will interview Hubbard about the creation of characters and character and the role of storytelling in the rectification of American myths. Filmed at the historical Beauregard-Keyes House in the French Quarter.

Partially Sponsored by Women’s National Book Association—New Orleans.