This festival is a a nonprofit that is funded exclusively through donations. One of the ways to help us through this kind of programming is through the friends of fall for the book. To learn more please visit that website again. We ask that you please remember to silence your cell phone and thank you in advance of filling out a survey which will help fall for the book improve the festival in the future. Thank you to our main sponsor, african and africanamerican studies. So we are pleased to have fear Marylouise Patterson and Jeffrey Stewart, two writers who examine key figures of the harlem renaissance, Langston Hughes and alan locke, respectively. In letters from langston dr. Patterson explores relationship that her family but particularly her mother had with Langston Hughes, and in the new negro the life of alain locke, Jeffrey Stewart chronicles the education and career of the central figure in the harlem renaissance. Its important Say Something about the subjects that they write ab