Cambridge Public Library to host Martin Luther King Day event Community Content Kiese Laymon, author of the award-winning memoir “Heavy: An American Memoir,” will be in conversation with Jesse McCarthy, an assistant professor at Harvard University, at the Cambridge Public Library’s 46th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at 7 p.m. on Jan. 14. Laymon will speak as part of the library’s Our Path Forward series, which examines issues that “are important to the health of our democracy.” The program is co-sponsored by the mayor's office, city manager's office and the Cambridge Public Library Foundation. Laymon’s “Heavy: An American Memoir” received the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose and the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media. The memoir was named one of the “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” by The New York Times and was named a best book of 2018 by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed, The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly.