Anthony C. Winkler, a Jamaican-born career textbook writer, emerged as the dark horse winner of the Townsend Prize on Thursday night for his eighth novel, God C...
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In 2000, novelist Jesmyn Ward’s only brother, Joshua, was driving home from his job as a parking valet at a Mississippi Gulf coast casino...
Manil Suri, the accomplished novelist, is also a mathematician. Author of a trilogy written over two decades and just completed with the publication of The Ci...
On August 28, 1963, a quarter-million people converged on Washington to demand an end to racial discrimination and strong civil rights legislation from Preside...
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Kevin Young, poet and professor at Emory University, has won the 2013 PEN Open Book Award for The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Bl...
"Pakistan was the great mistake of his parents, the blunder that had deprived him of his home.” So writes Salman Rushdie in his recent memoir Joseph Anton, spe...
New York is Richard Ford’s latest home. At 68, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer has a new job as a professor of creative writing at Columbia University. A year...
Ivy Hall, the 1883 red-brick Victorian mansion that now serves as the writing center for the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, stands on a hill a...
Natasha Trethewey’s body of poems reads like a narrative of race in America, moving between private family stories and reflections on the painful experience o...
Like many great stories, Isabel Wilkerson’s much-acclaimed history of black migration northward, “The Warmth of Other Suns" (Vintage, 640 pages), began at hom...
