Randall Kenan (1963–2020)
Autor de Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
Sobre El Autor
Raised in Chinquapin, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in English and Creative writing (1985). He is a Black, gay Southerner which is the creative foundation for his work. Randall Kenan is the author of the novel A Visitation of Spirits mostrar más (1989) and the short story collection Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992). The latter was nominated for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. After the success of A Visitation of Spirits, Kenan began working on a new book. More than a dozen years ago, he rented a car and set out from New York on a cross-country journey to interview African Americans. The title of the book that resulted, Walking on Water (1999), comes from the story of slaves en route from Africa who commandeered their ship off the coast of Georgia around 1800. Legend has it that they walked off the ship to an unknown fate. In his book, Kenan attempts to learn that fate. His other books include James Baldwin: American Writer (1993), A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta (he wrote the text for this collection of photographs by Norman Mauskoff published in 1997), The Fire This Time (2007), and If I had Two Wings (2020), a short story collection. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. When he isn't writing, Kenan teaches writing classes at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. He is also a contributor to the New York Times and The Nation and was once an assistant editor at Knopf. Randall Kenan had a stroke several years ago and had heart related problems. He died on August 28, 2020 at the age of 57. (P) (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: University of Mississippi Foundation
Obras de Randall Kenan
Obras relacionadas
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contribuidor — 274 copias
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Contribuidor — 121 copias
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contribuidor — 114 copias
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Contribuidor — 88 copias
Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing (2005) — Contribuidor — 81 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Kenan, Randall Garrett (birth)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1963-03-12
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2020-08-28
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Wallace, North Carolina, USA
Chinquapin, North Carolina, USA
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (English|1985)
- Ocupaciones
- editor
fiction writer
teacher, creative writing
teacher, food writing
essayist
biographer - Organizaciones
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
Alfred A. Knopf
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Random House - Premios y honores
- North Carolina Governors Award (2005)
John Dos Passos Prize (2002)
Sherwood Anderson Award
Whiting Writers' Award (1994)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1994)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 11
- También por
- 17
- Miembros
- 858
- Popularidad
- #29,814
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 11
- ISBNs
- 41
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 2
The voices in this collection are memorable in their complexity, being both frail and heroic, i.e. fully human.
Sadly Randall Kenan left us far too soon with many great stories left untold - but this collection is a great representation of his work and his place among Southern storytellers.… (más)