How Long to Read The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 33 minutes to read The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Named a Most Anticipated Title by: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post! A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author’s identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author’s name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, he finally tells her story. In this remarkable biography, Hecimovich identifies the novelist as Hannah Bond “Crafts.” She was not only the first known Black woman to compose a novel but also an extraordinarily gifted artist who honed her literary skills in direct opposition to a system designed to deny her every measure of humanity. After escaping to New York, the author forged a new identity—as Hannah Crafts—to make sense of a life fractured by slavery. Hecimovich establishes the case for authorship of The Bondwoman’s Narrative by examining the lives of Hannah Crafts’s friends and contemporaries, including the five enslaved women whose experiences form part of her narrative. By drawing on the lives of those she knew in slavery, Crafts summoned into her fiction people otherwise stolen from history. At once a detective story, a literary chase, and a cultural history, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts discovers a tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and violence set against the backdrop of America’s slide into Civil War.

How long is The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts?

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts by Gregg Hecimovich is 511 pages long, and a total of 128,261 words.

This makes it 172% the length of the average book. It also has 157% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 40 minutes to read The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts aloud.

What Reading Level is The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts?

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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