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Jim Grimsley

Biography

Jim Grimsley

Jim Grimsley is the author of four previous novels, among them WINTER BIRDS, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; DREAM BOY, winner of the GLBTF Book Award for literature; MY DROWNING, a Lila-Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award winner; and COMFORT AND JOY. He lives in Atlanta and teaches at Emory University.

Jim Grimsley

Books by Jim Grimsley

by Jim Grimsley - Memoir, Nonfiction

Jim Grimsley was 11 years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated. What he did not realize until he began to meet these new students was just how deeply ingrained his own prejudices were and how those prejudices had developed in him. Now, more than 40 years later, Grimsley looks back at that school and those times --- remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture.