Author Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett will speak about her book, Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in Pollin Chapel (1972 NW Flanders Street). Book sales and signing will follow.

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s. Hartnett's spirited chronicle captures Golden's message of social inclusion for a new audience today.