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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: 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 ...
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: Winner [48] JoAnne Tompkins: What Comes After: Runner-up [48] Anthony Doerr: Cloud Cuckoo Land: Finalist [48] Patricia Engel: Infinite Country: Finalist [48] Brad Kessler: North: Finalist [48] Juhea Kim: Beasts of a Little Land: Finalist [48] 2023 Geraldine Brooks: Horse: Winner [49 ...
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: Violet Kupersmith: Build Your House Around My Body: Patricia Lockwood: No One Is Talking About This: Jackie Polzin: Brood: 2022 Noor Naga: If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English: Winner [51] [52] [53] Daphne Palasi Andreades: Brown Girls: Shortlist [54] [55] [56] Jessamine Chan: The ...
Did you know... that The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, a new novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, mixes narrative with "love songs" that illuminate the lives of the protagonist's African, Creek, and Scottish ancestors? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/July.
Author Result Ref. 2020: Felon: Poems: Reginald Dwayne Betts: Winner [16] A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland: DaMaris B. Hill: Finalist [16] Honeyfish: Lauren K. Alleyne: Mistress: Chet'la Sebree: The Tradition: Jericho Brown: 2021: The Age of Phillis: Honorée ...
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Sister Lilith" Evie Shockley, "separation anxiety" Leone Ross, "Tasting Songs" Nalo Hopkinson, "Greedy Choke Puppy" Amiri Baraka, "Rhythm Travel" Kalamu ya Salaam, "Buddy Bolden" Akua Lezli Hope, "The Becoming" Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Goophered Grapevine" Nisi Shawl, "At the Huts of Ajala" Henry Dumas, "Ark of Bones"