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Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and raised Catholic in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. [3] [4] Her mother's family is from Eatonton, Georgia; her father's family, she recounted, was "black bourgeois and fair skinned" (her father, Lance Jeffers, was also a poet), and they were not happy when he married a working-class, darker-skinned woman.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is the 2021 debut novel by American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.It explores the history of an African-American family in the American South, from the time before the American Civil War and slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: Winner [17] [18] Homie: Danez Smith: Finalist [17] [19] Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry: John Murillo: Seeing the Body: Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Un-American: Hafizah Geter: 2022: Perfect Black: Crystal Wilkinson: Winner [20] [21] Playlist for the Apocalypse: Rita Dove: Finalist [20] Such Color: New and Selected Poems ...
The 46th Kennedy Center Honors celebrated some of the legendary performers of our time in a prerecorded special that aired on Wednesday.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: Nominee [22] Rebecca Hall: Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts: Nominee [22] 2023 George McCalman: Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen: Winner [23] Boyah J. Farah: America Made Me a Black Man: Nominee [24] Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, and ...
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson. My Remarkable Journey – Katherine Johnson; Other Black Girl: A Novel – Zakiya Dalila Harris; The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts – Rebecca Hall; Will – Will Smith. Just As I ...
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2014 — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Jake Adam York (posthumous) 2013 — Sharon Dolin and Shara McCallum; 2012 — L. S. Asekoff and Sheila Black; 2011 — Forrest Gander and Robert Bringhurst; 2010 — Jill McDonough and Atsuro Riley; 2009 — Christina Davis and Mary Szybist; 2008 — Matthew Thorburn and Monica Youn; 2007 — Laurie Lamon ...