Honored in Best Books of the Year listings from The New Yorker , National Public Radio, Library Journal , and The Huffington Post.
She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island..
Among her honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Wright has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose.
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This history leaps howling off the page.
Vittitow--with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, and activists.
In her signature style, Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories--especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs.
Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines explosive incidents grounded in the Civil Rights Movement.
In this National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, C.
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Oliver owned it free and clear], and that selfsame air, sanctified and doomed, rent with racism, and it percolates up from the soil itself .
Air fanned by a flock of hands in the old funeral home where the meetings were called because Mrs.
The children\'s minds say Never waver.
Not never.
Not nokindofhow.
The sheriff\'s club says Not now.
The threat they say is moving from the east.
Showers in the a.m. that defies description and discovers a powerful mode of its own.-- National Public Radio A] searing dissection of hate crimes and their malignant legacy.-- Booklist Today, Gentle Reader, the sermon once again: Segregation After Death. . .
One with Others represents Wright\'s most audacious experiment yet.-- The New Yorker A] Book .
Honored in Best Books of the Year listings from The New Yorker , National Public Radio, Library Journal , and The Huffington Post