The Stanford graduate, known for her acclaimed novels about rural Mississippi, will share messages about overcoming adversity at the final commencement address at the all-women’s college
Jesmyn Ward’s writing is rooted in the beauty and tragedy of rural Mississippi, where her family barely survived Hurricane Katrina, her brother and other men she grew up with died young, and she lost her husband at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For this occasion, the enduring messages of Ward’s writing should resonate, Mills officials say. The characters in her novels, “Salvage the Bones” and “Sing, Unburied, Sing” and in her memoir, “Men We Reap,” undergo monumental difficulties. But they “persist,” as Ward said in a 2018 commencement speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, where she is a professor of English.
Unfortunately, the couple struggled to provide for their growing family and eventually split. Ward writes about how it mostly fell to her mother to support her and her siblings by working as a maid to wealthy families in nearby Pass Christian. That changed when other post-graduation jobs didn’t work out and after her younger brother, Joshua, was killed by a drunken driver in 2000. Ward started to write seriously, but she almost gave up due to struggles to get her first novel published, followed by the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
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