

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Ethelene Whitmire: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF REED PEGGRAM
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The dramatic 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 stories.

On the eve of World War II, a handsome young scholar arrived in Paris. The queer, Black son of a housecleaner, who had nevertheless been decorated in the halls of Harvard and Columbia, Reed Peggram flirted with Leonard Bernstein, sat for portraits by famous artists, charmed minor royalty and became like a little brother to famed researcher and writer Jan Gay. Finally in Europe and on the same prestigious scholarship as literary luminaries Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes before him, he ignored the increasingly alarmed calls to return home to a repressive, segregated America and a constrained life as a second class citizen. And as tensions grew and gas masks were distributed in the City of Lights, 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.

Award-winning historian Ethelene Whitmire unearthed a trove of Reed’s letters when she met one of his descendants at a lecture, awed that she’d heard so little of this charismatic man and his fascinating true story of love and war. In The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram, she introduces us to an unforgettable character who fled 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.

In conversation with Steven Wright. 

https://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/remarkable-life-reed-peggram
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Madison
- **state**: WI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 201 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703
- **lat**: 43.07359
- **long**: -89.38752
- **full address**: 201 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703

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- **organizer**: Wisconsin Book Festival (https://allevents.in/org/wisconsin-book-festival/13274464)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 201 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Wisconsin Book Festival
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops
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