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- ↑ "Tufts philosopher Erin Kelly wins Pulitzer Prize for biography written with artist Winfred Rembert - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
- ↑ "Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, by the late Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly (Bloomsbury)". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
- ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert, Erin I Kelly". www.publishersweekly.com. August 10, 2021.
- ↑ Kelly, Erin I.; Reviewed by Christopher Heath Wellman. "The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
