Lawrence P. Jackson

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Lawrence P. Jackson

Lawrence Patrick Jackson is an American writer. He is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of History and English at Johns Hopkins University.[1] He won a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award[2] and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.[1]

He graduated from Stanford University. His work was in the Los Angeles Review of Books.[3] He taught at Emory University.

Works[change | change source]

  • Chester B. Himes, New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. ISBN 9780393063899 [4][5][6][7]
  • My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War. Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012. ISBN 9780226389493
  • The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780691141350
  • Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius. New York ; Chichester : Wiley, 2001. ISBN 9780471354147

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Lawrence P. Jackson". Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  2. "Hurston/Wright Foundation | Lawrence P. Jackson". Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  3. "Lawrence P. Jackson". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  4. "New Chester Himes Biography Reveals A Life As Wild As Any Detective Story". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  5. Jeffries, Michael P. (2017-08-24). "How Chester B. Himes Became the Rage in Harlem, and Beyond". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  6. Stepto, Robert B. (2017-09-01). "The black novelist history forgot". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  7. Shatz, Adam (2018-04-25). "Adam Shatz · Writing Absurdity: Chester Himes · LRB 25 April 2018". London Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-06-28.