Courtney B. Vance to relate audio version of prize-winning W.E.B. Du Bois biography

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NEW YORK (AP) — Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will likely be narrating the primary ever-audio version of some of the acclaimed literary biographies of the previous 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two-volume work on the scholar, creator and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois.

The primary quantity is scheduled for June 17.

“As a lover of history, I was drawn to W.E.B. Du Bois’s award-winning biography,” Vance said in a statement released Wednesday by Simon & Schuster Audio. “Having the chance to reintroduce his legacy to audiophiles by narrating his life story has been an honor and true passion project for me.”

Lewis obtained Pulitzer Prizes for every of his Du Bois books: “W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919,” printed in 1993, and “W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963,” which got here out in 2000. The historian stated in an announcement that he was gratified to have his books obtainable in audio.

“I can hardly believe this has come to pass,” he stated. “Listen to Courtney B. Vance and you shall hear the spoken wisdom of an American colossus, a prophetic man of color in whose 95 years all intellectual, political, economic, and racial choices were profoundly explored.”

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