Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Awards Ta-Nehisi Coates Its 2023 Literary Prize
Summary
Ta-Nehisi also enjoyed a successful run writing Marvel’s Black Panther (2016-2021) and Captain America (2018-2021) comics series.The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum are pleased to award Ta-Nehisi Coates the 2023 Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence for his work in promoting social and racial understanding as an essayist and novelist, while also fostering American storytelling as an educator and writer across multiple disciplines and genres including screenwriter and graphic novelist.Museum Executive Director, Dr. Alaina Doten says of Coates, "We are pleased to award an author whose works span as widely as Fitzgeralds did; Essayist, Novelist, and Screenwriter. I remember reading that scene in the second chapter when Gatsby has this huge party and just marvelling at how beautifully it was painted. Great, great book.”Previous recipients of the Fitzgerald Prize have been the retired Navy SEAL and bestselling author Clint Emerson (2022), Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Southern writer Rick Bragg (2021), the ground-breaking social and legal reformer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson (2020), accomplished Alabama authors Frye Gaillard (2019), Wayne Flynt (2018), Katherine Clark (2017) and Kim Cross (2016).An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates will be held at the Davis Theatre in Montgomery, Alabama on Friday, Sept. 22 from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The evening will include the awarding of the 2023 F. Scott Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence by the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum followed by a discussion between Mr. Coates and Dr. Derryn Moten, Professor and Chair of History at Alabama State University. Alabama State University is delighted to have Coates speak on campus on September 22, 2023.Tickets are $28 and are available at Eventbrite: https://aneveningwithtanehisicoates.eventbrite.comAudience members are encouraged to submit questions for the discussion in advance using the Q&A submission link.Q&A Submission Link:https://fitzmuse.wufoo.com/forms/an-evening-with-tanehisi-coates/Troy University’s Davis Theatre is located at 251 Montgomery St., Montgomery, AL 36104