T. E. Lawrence discovery in "The Times", Lawrence followed Malory scholar Eugene Vinaver from Manchester to Winchester by motorcycle. At the age of 46, two months after leaving military service, Lawrence was fatally injured in an accident on his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle in Dorset, close to his cottage, Clouds Hill, near Wareham. A dip in the road obstructed his view of two boys on their bicycles; he swerved to avoid them, lost control, and was thrown over the handlebars. He died six days later on 19 May 1935. The location is marked by a small memorial at the side of the road.
When Washington Was in Vogue due to its formulaic plotlines, others saw Williams’s analysis of intra-racial social politics as a fascinating window into the period. "Publishers Weekly" heralded it as “an invaluable addition to period scholarship”, while a laudatory review in "The Crisis" said the novel was “a welcome and consistently entertaining glimpse of a pivotal era”. With Christina Moore’s 2013 “Traditional Rebirth: The Epistolary Genre in When Washington Was in Vogue,” published in "African American Review", the novel (as a published whole) received its first scholarly treatment outside of McKible’s own work. When Washington Was in Vogue When Washington Was in Vogue is a