Nancy Rawles
| Nancy Rawles |
|---|
Nancy Rawles is an African American playwright, novelist, and teacher.
Life
Nancy grew up in Los Angeles. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Journalism.
Nancy studied play writing in Chicago with Linda Walsh Jenkins and Steven Carter. She later studied with C. Bernard Jackson of Los Angeles (Inner City) Cultural Center and Valerie Curtis Newton of The Hansberry Project. She is a contributor to the Female Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University under the direction of Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies.[1]
Awards
- 2009 Seattle Reads MY JIM
- 2007 Artist Trust Fellowship in Fiction
- 2006 American Library Association Alex Award
- 2006 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Fiction
- 2000 Astraea Foundation, Claire of the Moon Award for Fiction
- 1998 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
- 1998 Washington State Governor’s Writers Award
Works
Novels
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Criticism
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Reviews
In Nancy Rawles's third novel, the sad and gripping My Jim, Jim not only lives on as a character but shoulders the burden of inspiration. Thus Rawles's novel joins a now copious literary tradition of writers building their books on antecedent texts...[2]
References
- ↑ http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/about/about-contributors.html#rawles
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- "Author's website"
- "Nancy Rawles Revisits a Twain Character for 'My Jim'", NPR, Alan Cheuse, February 22, 2005
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- "The Importance of Place: Lisa Albers talks with prominent local authors about their writing", Seattle Woman
- Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
- Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows
- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- Writers from Los Angeles, California
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- City University of Seattle alumni
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
