February 20
Celebrating the literary legacy of Black writers in North Carolina
Randall Kenan (1963-2020)
Brooklyn, NY → as infant, raised in Duplin County, NC
Randall Kenan (March 12, 1963 – August 28, 2020) was an American author. Born in Brooklyn, New York, at six weeks old Kenan moved to Duplin County, North Carolina, a small rural community, where he lived with his grandparents in a town named Wallace. Many of Kenan's novels are set around the area of his home in North Carolina. - Wikipedia
James Baldwin (Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians)
A Time Not Here: Mississippi Delta
Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings
