Lawrence P. Jackson

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

  • 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

  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" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/books/review/chester-himes-biography-lawrence-jackson.html. Retrieved 2020-06-28. 
  6. Stepto, Robert B. (2017-09-01) (in en-US). The black novelist history forgot. ISSN 0190-8286 . https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-black-novelist-history-forgot/2017/09/01/4b13860c-5521-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html. 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.