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Bio

(1963-2020) Novelist, writer. Randall Kenan was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Full Name

Randall Kenan

Locations

Kings

Author's Timeline


1963

BIRTH

Randall Garrett Kenan was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 12, 1963.

1989

LITWORK

A Visitation of Spirits
Grove Press
0802111181 / 978-0802111180
Novel.

1990

OTHER

Mr. Kenan taught at various schools including Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, around 1990.

1990

OTHER

Mr. Kenan taught at various schools including Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, around 1990.

1990

OTHER

Mr. Kenan taught at various schools including Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, around 1990.

1992

LITWORK

Let The Dead Bury Their Dead
Mariner Books
0156505154 / 978-0156505154
Collection of stories.

1994

LITWORK

James Baldwin: American Writer (Lives of Notable Gay Men & Lesbians)
Chelsea House Publications
079102301X / 978-0791023013
Young adult biography.

1997

LITWORK

A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta
Twin Palms Publishers
0944092438 / 978-0944092439
Collection of photographs by Norman Mauskoff with text by Randall Kenan.

1999

LITWORK

Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Knopf
0679408274 / 978-0679408277
Nonfiction.

2007

LITWORK

The Fire This Time
Melville House
1933633247 / 978-1933633244
Nonfiction.

2010

LITWORK

The Cross of Redemption
Pantheon
0307378829 / 978-0307378828
Collection of writings by James Baldwin edited by Randall Kenan.

2016

LITWORK

The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food
Eno Publishers
0997314400 / 978-0997314403
Collection of stories edited by Randall Kenan.

2020

DEATH

Randall Kenan died at his home in Hillsborough, North Carolina, in Ausust 2020.

2020

LITWORK

If I Had Two Wings
W. W. Norton and Company
1324005467 / 978-1324005469
Collection of stories.

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