Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (born 1982 or 1983 in New Orleans ) is an American writer.
Origin and education
Sexton grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana . She studied creative writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire and law at the University of California, Berkeley .
She received a Lombard Fellowship and spent a year in the Dominican Republic , working and writing for a civil rights organization .
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Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom came in 2017 on the list of 100 Notable Books and the Editor's Choice list of the New York Times . The book was in 2017 for the National Book Award of the National Book Foundation nominated. In 2019, Sexton received the American Library Association's Black Caucus novel price and the Crook's Corner Book Prize for the book.
Parade magazine counted her second novel, The Revisioners , among the most anticipated books of autumn in 2019. Sexton received the NAACP Image Award in the fiction category for the novel 2020 .
Private life
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton is married and lives with husband and children in Oakland , California's Bay Area .
Web links
- Margaret W. Sexton website
- Video of a reading by Margaret W. Sexton, published August 2, 2017
- Interview with Margaret W. Sexton about A Kind of Freedom and the History of New Orleans, published January 24, 2018
- Interview with PEN America November 21, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/06/24/seeing-the-countrys-shadows-on-my-white-husbands-face/ accessed on August 2, 2020
- ↑ a b c Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ( en-US ) May 9, 2017.
- ↑ 100 Notable Books of 2017 . 22nd November 2017.
- ^ 11 New Books We Recommend This Week . September 14, 2017.
- ↑ Margaret Wilkerson Sexton .
- ^ The Revisioners . February 22, 2019.
- ^ "Margaret Wilkerson Sexton wins $ 5000 Crook's Corner Book Prize" . Press release from January 7, 2019.
- ↑ Ashley Johnson: The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019 . August 1, 2019.
- ↑ "2020 NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List" , ET , February 22 2020th
- ↑ https://www.nationalbook.org/people/margaret-wilkerson-sexton/#fullBio accessed on August 2, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 or 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |