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Author Jesmyn Ward to Deliver U-M's Winter Commencement Address
December 11, 2017
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Dec. 11 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:

Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward will be the featured keynote speaker at the 2017 University of Michigan Winter Commencement.

Ward, a professor at Tulane University and a MacArthur Fellow, is also one of 10 Bicentennial Alumni Award recipients being honored at the ceremony, which will begin at 2 p.m. Dec. 17 in Crisler Center.

Originally from DeLisle, Miss., Ward i . . .

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