The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative

Gregg Hecimovich is an American author and professor of English at Furman University, best known for his biography The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of “The Bondwoman’s Narrative” (2023), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, American Book Award, and Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and was named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post. After nearly two decades of research, he identified Hannah Crafts as the first known African American female novelist, with prior works including Puzzling the Reader: Riddles in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (2008) and reader’s guides to Austen and Hardy; he holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University (1997) and fellowships from Harvard, NEH, and Guggenheim.Furman University Furman CV