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Wilkinson has taught writing at Columbia University and the Fashion Institute of Technology. [1] She was a 2013 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer's Fellow, and has received support from both the MacDowell Colony and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. [1] Her fiction and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Granta, The Believer ...
Lauren Wilkinson’s debut novel, American Spy, was a Washington Post bestseller, an NAACP Image Award nominee, an Anthony award nominee, and an Edgar Award nominee.It was short-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, was a Barnes & Noble Book of the Month, a PBS book club pick, and was included on Barack Obama’s 2019 Recommended Reading List.
Jul 19, 1984 · Lauren Wilkinson earned an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University, and has taught writing at Columbia and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was a 2013 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer’s Fellow, and has also received support from the MacDowell Colony and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
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Description / Buy at Amazon. Lauren Wilkinson. Lauren Wilkinson was born July 19, 1984 and grew up in New York. She earned her MFA in literary translation and fiction from Columbia University, and has taught writing at both the Fashion Institute of Technology and Columbia. Her debut novel, called “American Spy”, was released in the year 2019.
Feb 13, 2019 · Lauren Wilkinson's debut novel follows the life and career of an African American FBI agent who's recruited by the CIA to aid in the overthrow of a charismatic African leader.
Jun 30, 2020 · Our June 2020 pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Lauren Wilkinson's "American Spy." ... The author shares more of her takeaways from the novel in an annotated excerpt, below.
Feb 25, 2019 · Lauren Wilkinson's sharp debut novel about a black woman living a double life as a spy spans three decades and leapfrogs from New York to the Caribbean to West Africa. ... Author Lauren Wilkinson ...
