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Randall in 1972. Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. [1] He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, [2] Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, [2] Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and ...
The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, [6] and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel received generally positive reviews from critics. [7] It was named on more than 30 best book of the year lists and a New York Times Editor's Choice ...
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist.He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
“The Sympathizer” already had proven commercial appeal, with nearly 500,000 paperbacks sold — but still, there is a tension to the process that Fichman and Susan Downey both acknowledge.
Throughout The Sympathizer, the Captain claims that he is a true revolutionary—and one who is telling his true story. But what is belief if it is based on lies? “I’m sorry to make the lesson ...
Viet is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I think it's nice having the author whose content it was adapted from really be a part of the experience. He's an executive producer too, so I got to speak to ...
Sylvia Plath. The Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers. The term was coined in 2001 by psychologist James C. Kaufman, and implications and possibilities for future research are discussed. [1]
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.