Many of Stringfellow’s family members attended her reading, as did her former professor, Tracy Vaughn-Manley. She credited her undergraduate career at NU and her law background with helping her with research aspects of the novel like finding land titles, court records, autopsy reports and more. And could do it on her own.”įollowing her law career, Stringfellow returned to NU to complete her Master of Fine Arts in poetry and fiction, summa cum laude. “And so I knew I needed to become the first attorney in my family to prove maybe to all the white folks, even at Northwestern, that a Black woman could do it. “I was angry, really, by the injustices I saw, even as a little girl,” Stringfellow said.
She continued her education at Chicago-Kent College of Law and then worked in the law field. Stringfellow majored in English Literature and African American studies and graduated with honors. “Us southern Black women know a thing or two about loss and know a thing or two about victory, and how much it costs.” “I had never read anything so moving as (the Constitution) and so inapplicable to Black folk,” Stringfellow said. Stringfellow said early in her life, she was quickly drawn to reading poetry as well as the U.S. The reading was followed by a discussion with Whitney Frick (Weinberg ’06) and moderated by English Prof. Stringfellow returned to Northwestern on Thursday to perform a reading of the novel. “Memphis” has been featured on the Today show, Oprah Daily, Essence, Glamour, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Millions, She Reads, Book Riot and more. The book is a bildungsroman celebrating three generations of Black women in Joan’s ancestry and the healing, hope and love she finds through art. “Memphis,” follows 10-year-old Joan as she, along with her mother and sister, flees her father and finds refuge in Memphis.
“I knew I wanted to write the most beautiful, moving passages this world has ever seen.” Writing that one word - the name of her city and now the title of her debut novel - was the moment Tara Stringfellow (Weinberg ’07, School of Professional Studies ’18) said she knew she was writing something special.
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