NEW YORK – Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance might be narrating the primary ever-audio version of probably the most acclaimed literary biographies of the previous 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two-volume work on the scholar, writer and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois.
The primary quantity is scheduled for June 17.
“As a lover of historical past, I used to be drawn to W.E.B. Du Bois’s award-winning biography,” Vance stated in an announcement launched Wednesday by Simon & Schuster Audio. “Having the prospect to reintroduce his legacy to audiophiles by narrating his life story has been an honor and true ardour undertaking for me.”
Lewis acquired Pulitzer Prizes for every of his Du Bois books: “W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919,” printed in 1993, and “W. E. B. Du Bois: The Battle for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963,” which got here out in 2000. The historian stated in an announcement that he was gratified to have his books obtainable in audio.
“I can hardly consider this has come to cross,” he stated. “Hearken to Courtney B. Vance and also you shall hear the spoken knowledge of an American colossus, a prophetic man of shade in whose 95 years all mental, political, financial, and racial decisions had been profoundly explored.”
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