The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter (98 page)
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Authors: Kia Corthron
Tags: #race, #class, #socioeconomic, #novel, #literary, #history, #NAACP, #civil rights movement, #Maryland, #Baltimore, #Alabama, #family, #brothers, #coming of age, #growing up
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kia Corthron has written many plays, fifteen of which have been produced nationally and internationally. For her body of work for the stage, she has garnered the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, the Lee Reynolds Award, and the Otto Award. She has also written a bit of television (Edgar and Writers Guild Outstanding Series awards for
The Wire
).
The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter
is her first novel. She grew up in Cumberland, Maryland, and lives in Harlem, New York City.
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