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Lauren Wilkinson is an American fiction writer. Her debut novel American Spy was published by Random House in February 2019 in the US and in July 2019 in the UK via Dialogue Books.
Lauren Wilkinson. 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 ...
American Spy is a novel by Lauren Wilkinson, published in February 2019 by Random House. Barack Obama included the book on his 2019 summer reading list. [1] The novel details the struggle and growth of Marie, an African American woman, as she recounts her time in the FBI.
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...
May 26, 2019 · LAUREN WILKINSON’S dazzling debut, American Spy, is being hailed as brave, stunning, and unforgettable, and I couldn’t agree more. Americans have grown up to believe spy thrillers should be...
Jun 30, 2020 · Lauren Wilkinson’s “American Spy” is a contemporary take on a classic spy novel, but it originally started as a graduate school assignment: She was prompted to write a short story about the...
Jan 20, 2020 · These ideas all came back to me as I was reading American Spy, the debut novel by Lauren Wilkinson. American Spy follows Marie Mitchell, an African American woman who works for the FBI before...
Jul 1, 2020 · Lauren Wilkinson, author of our June pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions about “American Spy.”
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.
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.
