Randall Kenan (1963–2020)
Autore di Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro (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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: University of Mississippi Foundation
Opere di Randall Kenan
Opere correlate
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Collaboratore — 276 copie
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Collaboratore — 116 copie
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing (2005) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Kenan, Randall Garrett (birth)
- Data di nascita
- 1963-03-12
- Data di morte
- 2020-08-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Wallace, North Carolina, USA
Chinquapin, North Carolina, USA
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (English|1985)
- Attività lavorative
- editor
fiction writer
teacher, creative writing
teacher, food writing
essayist
biographer - Organizzazioni
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
Alfred A. Knopf
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Random House - Premi e riconoscimenti
- North Carolina Governors Award (2005)
John Dos Passos Prize (2002)
Sherwood Anderson Award
Whiting Writers' Award (1994)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1994)
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Recensioni
Una visita degli spiriti di Randall Kenan
Un libro intenso, a tratti amaro. Si alternano stili diversi, spesso contrapposti. Descrizioni e allucinazioni si susseguono. La storia è quella di Horace, ragazzo di colore degli Stati del Sud, i suoi antenati schiavi. Scopre di essere attratto dagli uomini, ma non riesce ad accettarlo. E decide che l’unica via di fuga sia un vecchio rito magico medievale, vorrebbe tramutarsi in un uccello. Ma le cose non vanno come aveva sperato, e in una notte di allucinazioni, ripercorre la sua vita. Per conoscersi. E capirsi. Fino a dire “mi ricordo di me”.… (altro)
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