Jerald Walker
Autore di The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
Sull'Autore
Jerald Walker is the author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult and Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, winner of the 2011 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction. He has published in magazines such as Creative Nonfiction, Harvard mostra altro Review, Missouri Review, River Teeth, Mother Jones, Iowa Review, and Oxford American, and he has been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays. The recipient of James A. Michener and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Walker is Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: photo by Brenda Molife
Opere di Jerald Walker
Opere correlate
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine (2014) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Iowa (BA)
University of Iowa (MA)
University of Iowa (PhD) - Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- Bridgewater State College
Emerson College
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 200
- Popolarità
- #110,008
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 44
- ISBN
- 11
See also: The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph; I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Quotes
Racism is part and parcel of our culture, the great American disease with which we are all afflicted; there will be no cure until we accept this diagnosis. (from "The Heritage Room," 39)
Her tolerance for racism was extreme, in your view, which was to say she resisted it only if it were actually occurring, whereas all you required was its possibility. (From "Smoke," 84)
We were having trouble getting excited about our trip to Chicago, on account of all the murders. (From "Once More To the Ghetto," 120)… (altro)