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Kiese Laymon

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Kiese Laymon
Literature
#1140
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#2440
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#558
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Writing
#265
World Rank
#437
Historical Rank
#153
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According to Wikipedia, Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. He is the author of three full-length books: a novel, Long Division , and two memoirs, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and the award-winning Heavy: An American Memoir . Laymon was awarded a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2022.

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