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A Visitation of Spirits

A Novel

A Visitation of Spirits( )
Author: Kenan, Randall
ISBN:978-0-385-41505-7
Publication Date:Oct 1990
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Anchor
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $12.95
Book Description:

Marks the debut of a very gifted writer, who,speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage,about personal and communal strife within the,black community. But above all, he speaks in the,voice of the future that is tinged with,bittersweet love. Gloria Naylor.,.

Book Details
Pages:257
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Sagas
Fiction / African American & Black / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.031 x 7.722 Inches
Book Weight:0.572 Pounds
Author Biography
Kenan, Randall (Author)
Raised in Chinquapin, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in English and Creative writing (1985). He is a Black, gay Southerner which is the creative foundation for his work. Randall Kenan is the author of the novel A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and the short story collection Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992). The latter was nominated for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.

After the success of A Visitation of Spirits, Kenan began working on a new book. More than a dozen years ago, he rented a car and set out from New York on a cross-country journey to interview African Americans. The title of the book that resulted, Walking on Water (1999), comes from the story of slaves en route from Africa who commandeered their ship off the coast of Georgia around 1800. Legend has it that they walked off the ship to an unknown fate. In his book, Kenan attempts to learn that fate. His other books include James Baldwin: American Writer (1993), A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta (he wrote the text for this collection of photographs by Norman Mauskoff published in 1997), The Fire This Time (2007), and If I had Two Wings (2020), a short story collection.

His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. When he isn't writing, Kenan teaches writing classes at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. He is also a contributor to the New York Times and The Nation and was once an assistant editor at Knopf.

Randall Kenan had a stroke several years ago and had heart related problems. He died on August 28, 2020 at the age of 57. (P) 030



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