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Overview: Robert Ward was born in Baltimore, Maryland. When he was 15 years old he went to live with his paternal grandmother, Grace, a local social activist. He did his undergraduate work at Towson State University before earning his MFA in writing at the University of Arkansas. While living in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco he began working on his first novel, Shedding Skin, before moving back to Baltimore for its completion. He taught English at Miami University in Hamilton, Ohio for two years, then moved to Geneva, New York, where he taught at Hobart and William Smith College. In 1974, he started his career as a journalist, writing for magazines such as New Times and Sport. He moved to New York in 1976 and continued writing "New Journalism" for eight years. During this period, he wrote his novel Cattle Annie and Little Britches as well as the screenplay for the feature film based on the book. After the publication of his fourth novel, Red Baker, in 1985 he was approached by David Milch and offered a job to write for Hill Street Blues. After Hill Street concluded, Ward become the co-Executive Producer of Miami Vice, and spent five years writing scripts and producing TV movies at Universal Studios. He continues to write and produce television shows and movies as well publish novels.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biography, Memoir
Shedding Skin was published in 1972 after taking five years to complete. Ward worked on it for two years while living in a hippie commune in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. He destroyed the first draft of the manuscript before moving back to Baltimore where he began working on it once again. In 1968, in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., he escaped the North Ave. riots in Baltimore with only his manuscript and guitar before his block was burned down. Some chapters from Shedding Skin were published in the Winter 1970 Carolina Quarterly. Shedding Skin was published by Harper & Row in 1972. After publication it won the National Endowment of the Arts award for first novel of exceptional merit.
Grace (1998) is a fictional biography of his grandmother, a Baltimore activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
Novelist and TV producer Ward returns to the Baltimore of his childhood in this fictional memoir of his politically active paternal grandmother, Grace. In 1961, 15-year-old Bobby Ward’s parents’ marriage is disintegrating. Bobby moves in with Grace and his frequently absent seafaring grandfather, Cap. A devoted Roosevelt Democrat without formal education who quotes Shakespeare, Rousseau and Locke and admires Gandhi, Grace is an ardent community activist. But when the civil rights movement comes to her Methodist church in the form of nonviolent protest by blacks, Grace disappoints her grandson by not taking a stand. Bobby is bewildered by what he sees as her lack of bravery, and he also wonders about Grace’s "weird spells," which his parents never explain. Though the narrative occasionally rambles, Ward, who won the PEN West Award for his novel Red Baker, fashions many quietly beautiful moments, for instance, when Bobby finds Grace meditating in a sari on the roof of her garage. As Bobby learns about "the thin line between passion and insanity," the leisurely disclosure of the secrets in Grace’s mysterious past culminate in a moving revelation that’s well worth the reader’s patience through some awkward dialogue.
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