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    Deacon King Kong

    James McBride

    …screenwriter was born in 1957 to Ruth McBride, a new widow in a Brooklyn, N.Y. housing project, the eighth of her 12 children. His mother and father, the Rev. Andrew McBride, had started…

  • Portrait of Oprah Winfrey
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    Oprah Winfrey

    …became the youngest person and the first African-American woman to anchor the news at Nashville’s WTVF-TV.  She then relocated to Baltimore’s WJZ-TV to co-anchor the “Six O’Clock News” and later…

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    New York Burning

    Jill Lepore

    Jill Lepore is Professor of History at Harvard University and chair of the History and Literature Program. A contributor to The New Yorker, Lepore has also written for The New

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    The New Testament

    Jericho Brown

    Jericho Brown was born Nelson Demery III, raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, and graduated magna cum laude from Dillard University in New Orleans. He worked as a speech writer to the…

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    Eric Foner

    …of race. In “Who Owns History?,” he wrote succinctly: “A new future requires a new past.” “Eric Foner is the dean of Reconstruction historians, and is one of the most…

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    The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery

    Jonathan D. S. Schroeder

    newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American,…

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    The Autobiography of My Mother

    Jamaica Kincaid

    …taught creative writing at both Bennington College and Harvard University. Married to the composer Allen Shawn, the son of her New Yorker editor, Kincaid made news in 1995 when she…

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    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    Junot Díaz

    …among Newsweek’s “New Faces of 1996” – the only writer in the group. The New Yorker placed him on a list of the 20 top writers for the 21st century….

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    John Henry Days

    Colson Whitehead

    …Bluest Eye.” Whitehead has written essays, journalism and television columns for The New York Times Magazine, Vibe, Spin, New York Newsday and the Village Voice. His two new projects include…

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    Ake

    Wole Soyinka

    …leaders forge a future for the new nation. Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) typifies his imaginative engagement with tradition. Priority Projects (1982) are satirical agitprop (literary propaganda) sketches, written…

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    Heaven

    Rowan Ricardo Phillips

    …also a lauded sportswriter, covering basketball and soccer for The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The New Republic. He lives in Barcelona and New York. “I’m a skygazer by…

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    Spirit of Survival

    Gail Sheehy

    …and Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Ms. Sheehy is a seven-time recipient of the New York Newswomen’s Club Front Page Award for distinguished journalism….

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    Punishment Without Crime

    S. Andhil Fineberg

    …From 1929-1937 he was rabbi at Sinai Temple in Mt. Vernon, New York. Rabbi Fineberg also served Temple Judea, Manhasset, New York, and Temple Emanu El of Westchester in Harrison,…

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    Thrity Umrigar in conversation with Karan Mahajan

    October 4, 2023, 7:00 pm

    …“a young writer of proven excellence in poetry or prose.” Karan’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker Online, The New Republic and other venues. …

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    Far From the Tree

    Andrew Solomon

    …frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. He lives with his husband and children in Manhattan and London….

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    Wade in the Water

    Tracy K. Smith

    …The New York Times. “It was rock-solid as a book, plain-spoken but fierce.” Since her encounter with Dickinson, Smith has gravitated to poetry that employs plain language to probe the…

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    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    …job in Syracuse, New York, as a textbook editor for Random House. In 1968 she moved to Random House’s trade division in Manhattan, becoming their first black woman senior editor….

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    Yusef Komunyakaa

    …prose so far. Yusef Komunyakaa’s Dien Cai Dau changes that.”  The writing of the book began while Komunyakaa was renovating a house in New Orleans. Komunyakaa placed a notebook at…

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …fiction writer, autobiographer, and anthologist, Hughes captured the moods and rhythms of the black communities he knew and loved—and translated those rhythms to the printed page. Hughes has been called…

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    Deaf Republic

    Ilya Kaminsky

    …him home, a mistake that left young Ilya mostly deaf. Twelve years later, amid rising anti-Semitism, the United States granted his family asylum. The teenager found himself in Rochester, New