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SUMMARY:THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF REED PEGGRAM | NORDIC BOOK CLUB ONLINE
DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online!
  Nordic Book Club meets monthly via Zoom to discuss contemporary literat
 ure in translation. On July 14\, 2026\, we’ll discuss The Remarkable Lif
 e of Reed Peggram by Ethelene Whitmire! \nThe Remarkable Life of Reed Pe
 ggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love is drama
 tic and heartrending true story of one remarkable young man’s account of
  love in the time of war by a celebrated historian of untold Black stori
 es \nOn the eve of World War II\, a handsome young scholar arrived in Pa
 ris. The queer\, Black son of a housecleaner\, who had nevertheless been
  decorated in the halls of Harvard and Columbia\, Reed Peggram flirted w
 ith Leonard Bernstein\, sat for portraits by famous artists\, charmed mi
 nor royalty and became like a little brother to famed researcher and wri
 ter Jan Gay. Finally in Europe and on the same prestigious scholarship a
 s literary luminaries Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes before him\
 , he ignored the increasingly alarmed calls to return home to a repressi
 ve\, segregated America and a constrained life as a second class citizen
 . And as tensions grew and gas masks were distributed in the City of Lig
 hts\, Reed turned instead to the new life he’d made: with Arne\, a tall 
 and dashing Danish scholar with whom he had formed a deep bond. \nAward-
 winning historian Ethelene Whitmire (an ASF Fellow and the curator of ou
 r 2024-25 exhibition Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Centur
 y) unearthed a trove of Reed’s letters when she met one of his descendan
 ts at a lecture\, awed that she’d heard so little of this charismatic ma
 n and his fascinating true story of love and war. In The Remarkable Life
  of Reed Peggram\, she introduces us to an unforgettable character who f
 led from country to country as fighting advanced\, was captured by Nazis
  and outwitted them in a daring escape\, and risked it all in a personal
  fight for a life of love\, freedom\, beauty and dignity in a world set 
 against him. \nTh\n\nhttps://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-remarkab
 le-life-of-reed-peggram-nordic-book-club-online/
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 ggram-nordic-book-club-online/
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