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Wil Haygood

WIL HAYGOOD is the author of Tigerland, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; Showdown, a finalist for an NAACP Image Award; In Black and White; and The Butler, which was made into a film directed by Lee Daniels. He has been a correspondent for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer finalist. Haygood is a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and is currently Boadway Visiting Distinguished Scholar at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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Sun Mar 22
TOM'S BOOKPLATE BOOKSTORE @HOLT EDUCATION CENTER
200 S CROSS ST
CHESTERTOWN, MD 21620-1549
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Mon Mar 23 | 05:00 PM
Starr Center at Washington College
Litrenta, Toll Science Center
Chestertown, MD 21620
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Thu Mar 26 | 01:00 PM
Columbus State Community College Mitchell Hall
250 Cleveland Avenue
Columbus, OH 43215
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Sat Mar 28 | 10:00 AM
National Veterans Memorial & Museum
300 W Broad St
Columbus, OH 43215
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Sat Mar 28 | 02:00 PM
Barnes & Noble Lennox Town
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Columbus, OH 
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