The class welcomes guest Timothy Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name. This book, frequently compared favorably with To Kill A Mockingbird, won the Southern Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It has been the featured book for college reading programs at such schools as the University of North Carolina, Villanova University and the University of Iowa. Hollywood screenwriter and director Jeb Stuart, best known for "The Fugitive" and "Die Hard," wrote a screenplay based on Blood Done Sign My Name and shooting of the film begins May 5. Tyson is currently serving as Senior Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, with secondary appointments in the Duke Divinity School and the Department of History. [1] He is also adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
