Scott Ellsworth, author portrait
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Scott Ellsworth

Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game, winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about American history for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is also the author of The World Beneath Their Feet and Death in a Promised Land, his groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. Scott lives in Ann Arbor, where he teaches in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
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Tue Jul 15 | 07:00 PM
St. Louis County Library - Clark Family Branch
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. St
St. Louis, MO 63131
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Wed Jul 16 | 07:00 PM
POLITICS AND PROSE BOOKSTORE AT THE WHARF
610 WATER ST SW STE 1A
WASHINGTON, DC 20024-2990
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Thu Jul 17 | 07:00 PM
Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education
213 North King Street
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
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Tue Jul 22 | 06:30 PM
LITERATI BOOKSTORE
124 E WASHINGTON ST
ANN ARBOR, MI 48104-1905
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Wed Jul 23
MAGIC CITY BOOKS LLC
221 E ARCHER ST
TULSA, OK 74103-2409
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Wed Aug 13
The University Club
1 W 54th St
New York, NY 10019
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Thu Aug 14 | 07:00 PM
HARVARD BOOK STORE INC
1256 MASSACHUSETTS AVE
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138-3820
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Mon Oct 27
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Claremont McKenna College
385 E. Eighth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
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