by danelljones | Oct 16, 2019 | The Latest
Last Saturday night, I was sitting in one of the galleries at the Yellowstone Art Museum. The giant hall was filled with people clustered around banquet tables, stacks of new books tumbling over bright white tablecloths, wine-glasses half-filled, happy voices rising...
by danelljones | Oct 3, 2019 | The Latest
It’s A Finalist for the High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction! As if that were not exciting enough, here’s even more wonderful news: Melbourne Garber, Merriman-Labor’s great nephew, is coming to Montana! He and I will be having a discussion at This...
by danelljones | Sep 6, 2019 | The Latest
Then you should definitely try to get to the Lambeth Local History Fair. It promises to be a fantastic event focused on Black British history. I promise you will not want to miss writer and historian Steve Martin’s talk on A.B.C. Merriman-Labor at 2:30.I had the...
by danelljones | Jul 14, 2019 | The Latest
A.B.C. Merriman-LaborFreetown, Sierra Leone, circa 1904 One hundred years ago today, July 14, 1909, A.B.C. Merriman-Labor died of tuberculosis in the Lambeth Workhouse Infirmary, age 41.The building still stands in South London. I remember the haunting day my husband...
by danelljones | Apr 3, 2019 | The Latest
So, have you been wanting to know a little bit more about A.B.C. Merriman-Labor and An African in Imperial London? Curious to learn a few tidbits that didn’t make it into the book? Or perhaps stories about what it was like to research the life of an African man...
by danelljones | Dec 12, 2018 | The Latest
POP QUIZ: How many books are published in the U.S. each month? ANSWER: 50,000. Or maybe 100,000. The experts disagree. Either way, it’s mind-boggling. For our purposes here, let’s stick with 50,000. Remember, that’s 50,000 books each month. Just to keep...
