British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies

Date: 

Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, Barker Center, room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA

The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance