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Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, published in 1992, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002). A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, he wrote the texts for Robert Wilson’s productions of The Forest (1988) and Time Rocker (1995) and made the adaptation for Wilson’s production of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1989). In 1994, he received the Harold D. Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2013 an Award in Literature, also from the Academy. He is at work on a history of African-American literature in the 20th century. He lives in New York City.
Synopsis
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature. He lives in New York City.
Synopsis
Darryl Pinckney, a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature. He has worked for Robert Wilson on various theatrical projects, most recently an adaptation of Daniil Kharms’s The Old Woman.
About the Author
Darryl Pinckney, a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature. He lives in New York City.