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Morgan Jerkins is a senior culture editor at ESPN's The Undefeated and the New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, New York Times, Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Elle, Esquire, and the Guardian, among many other outlets. mostrar más She is based in Harlem. mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1993
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New Jersey, USA
Harlem, New York, New York, USA - Educación
- Princeton University (BA)
Bennington Writing Seminars (MFA) - Ocupaciones
- writer
editor
senior editor, ZORA
senior culture editor, The Undefeated - Agente
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- Biografía breve
- Morgan Jerkins is a senior editor at Medium's ZORA magazine. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vogue, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Elle, Rolling Stone, Lenny Letter, and BuzzFeed, among many other outlets. She lives in New York.
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- #30,227
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My appreciation for this book was augmented by (unintentionally) having read it nearly simultaneously with Twitty's The Cooking Gene and Four Hundred Souls. There is a significant amount of overlap among the three works, and many of the themes, events and histories became more familiar through this repetition. As a student of genealogy myself, I reveled in Jerkins' research into her family history, but I was a little concerned about the conclusions she drew regarding Carry Love. Maybe she could find a descendant of a DeBlanc to confirm via DNA testing? I delighted in Jerkins' curiosity, empathized with her disappointments and appreciated her willingness to talk about difficult and painful aspects of her family's history. Overall, an interesting read on a theme I hadn't thought much about: those who participated in The Great Migration to leave behind the places which and people who had caused their families misery and suffering for so long wished to cut ties and make a fresh start. Understandably, they often didn't wish to speak of their ancestral homes in the South, which has left subsequent generations rather in the dark about their own family histories.… (más)