Jerald Walker
Autor(a) de The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
About the Author
Jerald Walker is the author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult and Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, winner of the 2011 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction. He has published in magazines such as Creative Nonfiction, Harvard mostrar mais Review, Missouri Review, River Teeth, Mother Jones, Iowa Review, and Oxford American, and he has been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays. The recipient of James A. Michener and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Walker is Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College. mostrar menos
Image credit: photo by Brenda Molife
Obras por Jerald Walker
Associated Works
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine (2014) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Educação
- University of Iowa (BA)
University of Iowa (MA)
University of Iowa (PhD) - Ocupações
- professor
- Organizações
- Bridgewater State College
Emerson College
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 200
- Popularidade
- #110,008
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 44
- ISBN
- 11
See also: The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph; I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Quotes
Racism is part and parcel of our culture, the great American disease with which we are all afflicted; there will be no cure until we accept this diagnosis. (from "The Heritage Room," 39)
Her tolerance for racism was extreme, in your view, which was to say she resisted it only if it were actually occurring, whereas all you required was its possibility. (From "Smoke," 84)
We were having trouble getting excited about our trip to Chicago, on account of all the murders. (From "Once More To the Ghetto," 120)… (mais)