Author Talk: Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Sherri Burr
In-Person
Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Sherri Burr encourages individuals to recall, interview, research and evaluate their family stories to determine whether they should write them into articles and books. Burr, a prolific author or co-author of over 30 law, business, and history books, told her family stories in Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865 (Carolina Academic Press, 2019), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History, and in her first memoir, Living with Nephew: How I Got Voted the Meanest Parent in the World, which was published in 2026.
During her talk, Burr will help participants create roadmaps for crafting their own stories. She will illustrate how to dig for literary nuggets through archives and libraries, as well as interviewing relatives and others family connections to place stories within the context of history.
- Date:
- Saturday, May 16, 2026
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Lomas Tramway Meeting Room
- Location:
- Lomas Tramway Library
- Categories:
- Adults Author Events Special Event
