Kevin Young Biography

Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture recently named a National Historic Landmark and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker. He is the writer of thirteen books of verse and exposition most as of late Brown (2018); Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf 2016) longlisted for the National Book Award; and Book of Hours (Knopf 2014) a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and victor of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. His assortment Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Youthful's verifiable book Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes Humbug Plagiarists Phonies Post-Facts and Fake News (Graywolf Press November 14, 2017) won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award was longlisted for the National Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice determination and a Best Book of 2017 by NPR the Los Angeles Times Dallas Morning News Atlanta Journal-Constitution Smithsonian Vogue the Atlantic Nylon BuzzFeed and Electric Literature. Youthful's past genuine book The Gray Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (Graywolf Press 2012) won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award; it was additionally a New York Times Notable Book for 2012 and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for analysis."

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