Lawrence Jackson - A Biographer and Critic

Lawrence jackson is a biographer and critic whose work has appeared in harper's mag ine and plus one. He teaches english and history at john's hopkins and founded the billy holiday project for liberation arts. His book shelter is a series of essays about moving back to baltimore, the city he grew up in after a divorce in 20 16. These are really meditations on the hidden history that we can't see, that not only built baltimore,. but built our country based on slavery and racism and injustice.