Libertie

Name: Libertie
ISBN: 9781616208905

by Kaitlyn Greenidge

NAACP Image · 2022 · ShortlistErnest J. · 2021 · Shortlist

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Algonquin BooksMarch 30, 2021Literary FictionISBN 9781616208905

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction	2022	Shortlist
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence	2021	Shortlist

About This Book

Inspired by the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the United States, this novel follows her daughter, Libertie, as she searches for freedom and self-definition in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn and Haiti. Shortlisted for the 2021 Ernest J. Gaines Award.

About the Author

Kaitlyn GreenidgeAmerican

Kaitlyn Greenidge is an American writer born in Boston. She received a 2017 Whiting Award for Fiction for her debut novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman (2016), and published her second novel Libertie (2021), a historical novel. She holds degrees from Wesleyan University and Hunter College, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, and other outlets.