09/28/2026
Join us for a book talk by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Cristina Rivera Garza this Wednesday, September 30!
Wed, September 30 @ 5 PM
Chancellor Green Rotunda, Princeton University
The Common Grave of the Poor: An Exhumation of "Autobiography of Cotton"
This event is open to the public. A reception will immediately follow.
A writer, historian, critic, and scholar, Rivera Garza is one of the most influential voices in contemporary Latin American and Latino literature. Her work moves across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, literary criticism, archival research, and experimental writing, consistently expanding the possibilities of literary form in Spanish and English.
Rivera Garza is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of "Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice".
This event is co-organized with the Princeton University Press.
Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2026/cristina-rivera-garza-common-grave-poor-exhumation-autobiography-cotton
Thank you to our co-sponsors:
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Humanities Council, Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
