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An American Famous Novelist - Jeffery Renard Allen

Jeffery Renard Allen has worked with developing writers around the African continent. In 2006, he taught for the Kwani. Jeffery Renard Allen was awarded The P.E.N. Discovery Prize in 1989. His widely celebrated novel, Rails Under My Back, won the Chicago Tribuneu2019s Heartland Prize for Fiction. His story collection Holding Pattern won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He has also been awarded a Whiting Award. Read more!<br>

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An American Famous Novelist - Jeffery Renard Allen

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  1. JEFFERY RENARDALLEN An American FamousNovelist www.authorjefferyrenardallen.com

  2. ABOUT: JefferyRenardAllen(born 1962Chicago)isan American poet, essayist, short story writer, and novelist. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999) andStellarPlaces(MoyerBell,2007),andthree worksoffiction,thenovelRailsUnder MyBack (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), a story collection Holding Pattern (Graywolf Press, 2008) and a second novel, Song of the Shank (GraywolfPress, 2014). www.authorjefferyrenardallen.com

  3. JefferyRenardAllenhasworked withdevelopingwritersaroundthe Africancontinent.In2006,hetaught fortheKwani. LiteraryfestivalinNairobi,Kenya.WithfellowauthorArthurFlowers,hefoundedthe PanAfrican LiteraryForum,whichheldaninternationalwriters’conferencein Accra,Ghana,inJuly2008thatfeaturedmorethanonehundredparticipants.

  4. AWARDS JefferyRenardAllenwasawarded TheP.E.N.DiscoveryPrizein1989. Hiswidelycelebrated novel,Rails UnderMyBack,wontheChicago Tribune’sHeartlandPrizeforFiction. HisstorycollectionHoldingPattern wontheErnestJ.GainesAwardfor LiteraryExcellence.[14]Hehasalso beenawardedaWhitingAward.

  5. SONGOFTHESHANK SONGOFTHESHANKisthepowerfulnew novelfromtheprodigiouslytalentedauthor ofRAILSUNDERMYBACK(Farrar,Straus andGiroux,2000).Itrecountstheobscure historyofThomasGreeneWiggins,a remarkable nineteenth-century African Americanmusicalprodigyand“idiot savant”whoperformedunderthestage nameBlindTom.BornaslaveinGeorgiain 1849, Wiggins was one of the first African Americanclassicalmusicians,a contemporaryofvirtuosossuchasLiszt andRubinstein.

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