National Writers Series
NWS Presents: Joshua Prager, Author of “The Family Roe”
Author and journalist Joshua Prager joins the National Writers Series on Oct. 28 for a discussion of his newest book, “The Family Roe.”
Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers—a previously unseen trove—and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America.
Guest host: April Baer of Michigan Radio’s “Stateside.”
