Darryl Pinckney
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Early life
Pinckney grew up in a middle-class African-American family in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended local public schools. He was educated at Columbia University in New York City.[1]
Career
Template:BLP unreferenced section Some of Pinckney's first professional works were theatre texts, plays developed in collaboration with director Robert Wilson.[2] These included the produced works of The Forest (1988) and Orlando (1989). Pinckney returned to theatre with Time Rocker (1995).[3]
His first novel was High Cotton (1992), a semi-autobiographical novel about "growing up black and bourgeois" in 1960s America. His second novel was Black Deutschland (2016), about a young gay black man in Berlin in the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.[4]
Pinckney has published several collections of essays covering topics such as African-American literature, politics, race, and other cultural issues. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Granta, Slate, and The Nation. He frequently explores issues of racial and sexual identities, as expressed in literature and society.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Awards
- 1986, Whiting Award[5]
- 1992, High Cotton won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.[6]
- 1994, the Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[7]
- 2022, His memoir Come Back in September was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography.[8]
- 2022, James Tait Black Prize for Biography for Come Back in September[9]
Personal life
Pinckney is gay[10] and lives with his partner, English poet James Fenton; the couple has been together since 1989.[11] Pinckney currently lives in New York City, but previously lived with Fenton in Oxfordshire, England.[12]
Bibliography
Books
- High Cotton (novel; 1992)
- Sold and Gone: African American Literature and U.S. Society (2001)
- Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002)
- Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy (2014)
- Black Deutschland (2016)
- Busted in New York and Other Essays (2019; Foreword by Zadie Smith)[13]
- Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan (2022)
Selected essays
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Theatre texts
- (Collaborations with Robert Wilson)
- The Forest (1988)
- Orlando (1989)
- Time Rocker (1995)
- Garrincha - a street opera (2016)
- Mary Said What She Said (2019)
- Dorian (2022)
- Pessoa: since I've been me (2024)
References
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External links
- Darryl Pinckney website
- Darryl Pinckney at the New York Review of Books
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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