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American novelist, playwright, and essayist (born 1953) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darryl Pinckney (born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist.
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Born | 1953 (age 70–71) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University (BA) |
Genre | Novelist, playwright |
Notable works | High Cotton (1992) |
Notable awards | Whiting Award (1986); Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994) |
Partner | James Fenton |
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Pinckney grew up in a middle-class African-American family in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended local public schools. He was educated at Columbia University in New York City.[1]
Some of Pinckney's first professional works were theatre texts, plays developed in collaboration with director Robert Wilson.[2] These included the produced works of The Forest (1988) and Orlando (1989). Pinckney returned to theatre with Time Rocker (1995).[3]
His first novel was High Cotton (1992), a semi-autobiographical novel about "growing up black and bourgeois" in 1960s America. His second novel was Black Deutschland (2016), about a young gay black man in Berlin in the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Pinckney has published several collections of essays covering topics such as African-American literature, politics, race, and other cultural issues. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Granta, Slate, and The Nation. He frequently explores issues of racial and sexual identities, as expressed in literature and society.
Pinckney is gay[9] and lives with his partner, English poet James Fenton; the couple has been together since 1989.[10] Pinckney currently lives in New York City, but previously lived with Fenton in Oxfordshire, England.[11]
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