Kim McLarin
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Kim McLarin (born 1964) is an American novelist, best known for Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Jump at the Sun.[1] Her works include contemporary novels, short stories and non-fiction.
Career
McLarin has a bachelor's degree from Duke University.[2]
She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Greensboro News & Record and Associated Press. She is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston.[3]
McLarin is a regular panelist on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African-American themes, shown on WGBH.[4]
McLarin has two children and lives in Boston.[5]
Bibliography
Contemporary
- Meeting of the Waters (Harper Perennial, 2001)
- Jump at the Sun (William Morrow, 2006)
Short stories
- in Black Silk (A Collection Of African American Erotica) (2002)
Non-fiction
- Taming It Down (Warner Books, 1998)
- Growing up X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz (Thorndike Press, 2002)
- This Child Will Be Great, co-authored with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Harper/HarperCollins, 2009)[6]
- Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood, and Midlife (C&r Press, 2012)
- Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life (Ig Publishing, 2019)
- James Baldwin's Another Country (Ig Publishing, 2021)[7]
Awards
Won
- 2007 Fiction Honor Book, of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (for Jump at the Sun)[8]
Nominated
- 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction (for Jump at the Sun)[9]
References
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- ↑ "Kimberly McLarin", Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty, Emerson College.
- Kim McLarin, "Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me", New York Times, September 3, 2006.
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- African-American novelists
- Emerson College faculty
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- American women academics
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