Long DivisionKiese Laymon

Long Division

NAACP Image · 2022 · Winner

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction	2022	Winner

About This Book

Recognized by the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction.

About the Author

Kiese LaymonAmerican

Kiese Laymon (born 1974) is an American writer born in Jackson, Mississippi, known for his novel Long Division and memoirs Heavy: An American Memoir—which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times Book Prize—and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. ALA. He received a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship ("genius grant"). Read more →