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Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series
Visiting Authors: 2020-present
2023 Robert Jones, Jr.: Novelist and essayist
New York Times bestselling author, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, NAIBA Book of the Year Award,
National Book Award finalist
Major Works: The Prophets, Son of Baldwin
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Program
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2022 Brit Bennett: Novelist and essayist
New York Times bestselling author, Hopwood Award, Hurston/Wright Award
Major works: The Mothers, The Vanishing Half
2020-21 Roxane Gay: Writer of memoir and fiction, essayist, editor, and anthologist
Pen Center USA Freedom to Write Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Eisner Award, two Lambda Literary Awards
Major works: Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Difficult Women, Hunger, Not that Bad, The Best American Short Stories 2018, The Banks, the Selected Works of Audre Lorde, Graceful Burdens, The Sacrifice of Darkness
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