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Erasure
Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2002 · Winner
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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) | 2002 | Winner |
About This Book
Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison is a novelist and professor frustrated by the publishing industry's appetite for stereotypical Black narratives. In a satirical rage, he writes a cliched ghetto novel under a pseudonym—only to see it become a massive bestseller. A sharp, metafictional satire of race, art, and the marketplace. Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.
About the Author
Percival EverettAmerican
Percival Everett is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in Fort Gordon, Georgia, in 1956, he studied philosophy at the University of Miami and received his MA from Brown University. He is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and poetry across a career of remarkable range, formal innovation, and critical intelligence. Read more →
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