Take My Hand: The inspiring and unforgettable BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

ISBN-13: 9781474622684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Recenzje

It is Civil's determination and resilience that imbue the book with undeniable power and grace. I cheered out loud! Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry

O autorze

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Wench. In 2011, she was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction. She received a DC Commission on the Arts Grant for her second novel Balm, which was published by HarperCollins in 2015. Dolen is also a 2020 nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship, and the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. On behalf of the foundation, she has visited nearly every public high school in the District of Columbia to talk about the importance of reading and writing. She is currently Associate Professor in the Literature Department at American University and lives in Washington, DC with her family.