Randall Kenan
American writer
Why Is Randall Kenan Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Randall Kenan was an American author. Born in Brooklyn, New York, at six weeks old Kenan moved to Duplin County, North Carolina, a small rural community, where he lived with his grandparents in a town named Wallace. Many of Kenan's novels are set around the area of his home in North Carolina. The focus of much of Kenan's work centers around what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Some of Kenan's most notable works include the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992, A Visitation of Spirits, and The Fire This Time. Kenan was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize.
Randall Kenan's Published Works
Published Works
- The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2010) (98)
- Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992) (11)
- Walking on water : Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century (2000) (11)
- The Fire This Time (2016) (10)
- An Interview With Randall Kenan (1998) (7)
- Let the dead bury their dead and other stories (1992) (3)
- When We All Get to Heaven (2013) (3)
- The Good Ship Jesus: Baldwin, Bergman, and the Protestant Imagination; or, Baldwin’s Bitter Taste (2014) (2)
- American Private Banks in International Banking and Industrial Finance, 1870-1914 (1985) (2)
- Greens: A Mess of Memories about Taste (2014) (1)
- Now Why Come That Is? (1998) (0)
- Index: Contents of Volume 86, 2012 (2013) (0)
- Walking on water (1999) (0)
- Now Why Come That Is? (2001) (0)
- Randall Kenan (2019) (0)
- Friends of Eudora Welty and Her Work: A Roundtable Discussion (2010) (0)
- Mamiwata (2018) (0)
- An Interview with Alice Randall (2018) (0)
- REPRESENTATIONS OF SPACES, SUBJECTS, AND TRAUMA IN WILLIAM FAULKNER, WALKER PERCY, BARRY HANNAH, AND RANDALL KENAN by MICHAEL PAUL PICKERING SUE KIM, COMMITTEE CHAIR (2010) (0)
- Twenty, Twenty-One (2016) (0)
- Life with both daddy and father (1993) (0)
- The Boy Who Played Cards with the Devil (2000) (0)
- Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical Hamilton (2019) (0)
- Randall Kenan on Ode to Billie Joe (2011) (0)
- The Origin of Whales (2021) (0)
- The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks (2013) (0)
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