Born: 12-Mar-1963
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 28-Aug-2020
Location of death: Hillsborough, NC
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

    University: BA English and Creative Writing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1985)
    Professor: English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Guggenheim Fellowship

Author of books:
A Visitation of Spirits (1989, novel)
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992, short stories)
James Baldwin: American Writer (1993, biography)
A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta (1997, photography)
Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (1999, history)
The Fire This Time (2007, history)
If I Had Two Wings (2020, short stories)

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