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'Say I'm Dead, A Family Memoir' unveils family secrets and confronts racial identity in her Black father and white mother's past. Essayist on interracialism.

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined June 2009
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Don’t hurt ‘em, Michelle! Love this 2022 energy from my forever FLOTUS and POTUS! 🙌🏾🍸❤️
Happy New Year from me and my boo! 🎉🥳 Wishing you all a year filled with happiness, love, and good health.
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Clueless reporter makes Naomi Osaka cry in her first news conference at the US Open, asking not about tennis but her discomfort dealing with the press.
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So honored for my memoir, Say I'm Dead, to be on the Massachusetts Book Award long list for Non Fiction! Thank you Mass Center for the Book.
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Today is Loving Day, marking the U.S. Supreme Court ruling 54 years ago in favor of interracial marriages. But the parents of @e_dolores_J met long before Loving v. Virgina. Hear their story of love that defied the law of the time. ❤️▶️ forum-network.org/lectures/m…
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Tonight at 7:30! Please join my book talk on Say I'm Dead in conversation with Grace Talusan mhl.org/adult-program/2021/e…
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🗓️ Join the alumni of @GrubWriters's #Memoir and #Essay Incubators and @PorterSqBooks for an all new @tellallboston event on March 4th featuring @MichelleBowdler, Sebastian Stuart, @e_dolores_J, and @howes_molly! RSVP here: ow.ly/440I50DyKSq
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We’re very excited! Can’t wait to see everyone ‘there!’
E. Dolores Johnson retweeted
🗓️ Join the alumni of @GrubWriters's #Memoir and #Essay Incubators and @PorterSqBooks for an all new @tellallboston event on March 4th featuring @MichelleBowdler, Sebastian Stuart, @e_dolores_J, and @howes_molly! RSVP here: ow.ly/440I50DyKSq
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Happy Haitian Independence Day. You can read Douglass' speech in full here: faculty.webster.edu/corbetre…
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Please join my Author Talk onSay I’m Dead, a Family Memoir of Race, Secrets and Love, hosted on Martha's Vineyard Tues, Nov 17 at 7 pm Link: [email protected] My black father and white mother married 25 years before the Supreme Court's Loving decision.
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It was a pleasure to discuss memoir writing at Indie Author Day today. Thank you Buffalo and Erie County Library for having me.
Replying to @buffalolibrary
Thank you so much to all who joined us for this morning’s #IndieAuthorDay program including @avestep @e_dolores_J @martigorman @nofalck @AlyssInWnderlnd @msmdbooks @lou_rera & Barbara Sanchez! If you missed it, recordings will be posted in the coming days. #WNYIndieAuthors
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Talk about standing on the backs of giants...RIP JOHN LEWIS
Thank you John Lewis!
Join author @e_dolores_J for a virtual event on her book, 'Say I'm Dead,' hosted by the @CantonLibrary on October 20 at 7:00pm ET. buff.ly/3lLIpKx
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Thank you National Association of Black Journalists for awarding SAY I'M DEAD the Outstanding Literary Award at your 2020 convention. #BlackLivesMatter #AfricanAmerican #booklove #wellreadblackgirl #bookaddict
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Thank you to WBUR's The ARTery for today's great Review of Say I'm Dead! wbur.org › artery › 2020/07/06 › say-im-dead-review #BlacklivesMatter #Lovetoread #bookish #booknerd #bookaddict #wellreadblackgirl #booklovers #lovetoread #chicagoreviewpress #bookshelfie
Join me for a virtual Forum at the Concord Museum! E. Dolores Johnson discusses Say I'm Dead. July 21, 2020 7 p.m. concordmuseum.org/events/dol… #blacklivesmatter #booklovers #bookish #bookaddict #booknerd #africanamerica
Publisher's Weekly: Say I'm Dead makes a bounce in small press sales Small Presses Cope During Covid-19, Part II Publishers Weekly {CRP} attributed the bounce partially to two new releases: Daughter of the Boycott by Karen Gray Houston and Say I'm Dead by E. Dolores Johnson.
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