Kiese Laymon
Autor/a de Heavy: An American Memoir
Sobre l'autor
Kiese Laymon is an American author and professor, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He attended Millsap College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College and earned his MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. He is the Ottilie Schillig Professor of English and mostra'n més Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He has written a novel entitled Long Division; a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America; and a memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir. He won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for nonfiction with his memoir, Heavy. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Author Kiese Laymon at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74113188
Obres de Kiese Laymon
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Obres associades
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) — Col·laborador — 838 exemplars
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (2019) — Col·laborador — 254 exemplars
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (2021) — Col·laborador — 223 exemplars
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Col·laborador — 178 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1974-08-15
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Educació
- Millsap College
Jackson State University
Oberlin College (BA)
Indiana University (MFA) - Professions
- author
creative writing teacher - Organitzacions
- University of Mississippi
Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative (founder)
Rice University - Premis i honors
- MacArthur Fellowship (2022)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 8
- També de
- 12
- Membres
- 1,926
- Popularitat
- #13,363
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 76
- ISBN
- 37
- Llengües
- 4
- Preferit
- 2
Still, I got to the essay titled 'Reasonable Doubt and the Lost Presidential Election of 2012' - and the sentence, "I also assumed most of those folks were wondering how retribution for this splendid Black American Achievement would be played out on their bodies" and realized the ugliness of American mythology was uglier than realized - centuries of seeing every moment of progress repaid with a violent backlash. And the need to stop overtalking what's being said and to just shut up and listen.
Kiese Laymon lays down these truths in a way that rips the veneer off the myth. It's storytelling at its finest that resists the urge to compartmentalize discussions of justice from discussions of family from discussions of joy from discussions of grief - showing how pervasive hate is. Even after a person has come to terms with its destructiveness, that's only the beginning of the learning process.
Kiese Laymon needs to be read at every level.… (més)