

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Althea Ward Clark Reading by Kaitlyn Greenidge & Hisham Matar
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, a 2019-20 Princeton University Hodder Fellow, and 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hisham Matar read from their work as part of the 2025-26 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. The writers’ books will be available to purchase and have signed.

Kaitlyn Greenidge’s debut novel is We Love You, Charlie Freeman (Algonquin Books), one of the New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books of 2016. Her second novel, Libertie, was published by Algonquin Books in 2021 and was a New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Historical Fiction Book for 2021. Her writing has appeared in the Vogue, Glamour, the Wall Street Journal, Elle, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was a Princeton University 2019-20 Hodder Fellow. She is currently features director at Harper’s Bazaar. Her third novel is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.

Hisham Matar is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three novels and two works of memoir. His novels include In the Country of Men (2008), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won numerous international prizes; Anatomy of a Disappearance (2011), named one of the best books of the year by The Guardian and the Chicago Tribune; and My Friends (2024), a novel about exile, friendship, and family, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orwell prize for Political Fiction, was shortlisted for the National Book Award, and was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Matar’s memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (2016), won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second memoir, A Month in Siena (2019), offers a meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape and shed further light on the present world around us. Matar is a professor at Barnard College and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. He lives in London and New York.
 
This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.
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- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, health-wellness
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Princeton
- **state**: NJ
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Labyrinth Books Princeton
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- **full address**: Labyrinth Books Princeton, 122 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ 08542-4516, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Labyrinth Books Princeton, 122 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ 08542-4516, United States
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- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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