Roberta Rubenstein News Today

Like many American girls, I was still in elementary school the first time I pilfered a copy of Flowers in the Attic and locked myself in a room to read it under the secrecy of covers. The story itself is scary: four children locked in an attic by a family that cares for them as little as they care for cast-off…

After experiencing a literary awakening during Peace Corps service in Nigeria, he helped found the academic study of African literature in the United States.