Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
by Kevin Young
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction | 2018 | Winner |
About This Book
A wide-ranging cultural history of American hoax culture, from P.T. Barnum's humbug through literary forgeries, blackface minstrelsy, fake identities, and the contemporary epidemic of misinformation. Kevin Young examines how deception in America has always been entangled with race and argues that the American tradition of the con is inseparable from the country's racial history. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction.
About the Author
Kevin Young is an American poet, author, and director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1970, he studied at Harvard University with Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido, and received his MFA from Brown University. He is the author of more than ten poetry collections, including Dear Darkness (2008), Book of Hours (2014), and Brown (2018). Read more →
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