Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy's encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison.Ĭhasing Me to My Grave presents Rembert's breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction
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