Angela Flournoy

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Flournoy at the 2016 Texas Book Festival.

Angela Flournoy is an American writer. Her

NAACP Image Award, and named a New York Times Notable Book of 2015.[2][3] She was also listed on the National Book Awards' 5 under 35 list, nominated by her former teacher ZZ Packer.[2][4]

Early life and education

Flournoy was raised in Southern California. Her mother was from Los Angeles and father from Detroit.[4] Flournoy attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the University of Southern California.[4] She started developing her first novel, The Turner House while attending the Iowa Workshop, where she frequently traveled to Detroit to visit her father's family.[2][5]

Career

After graduating, Flournoy taught writing for the

Bookscan, which tracks around 70% of U.S. book sales, her book has sold over 15,000 copies in paperback and hardcover as of April [2016]; anything over 10,000 is generally considered high for literary fiction."[9]

In 2020 she was scheduled to go on a State Department-sponsored reading tour of Germany. Flournoy canceled at short notice amid tensions with Iran and published a justification in The New Yorker.[10]

Flournoy attributes her understanding of character development to Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men.[11]

References

  1. ^ Ho, Jean (August 9, 2016). "Diversity In Book Publishing Isn't Just About Writers โ€” Marketing Matters, Too". NPR. Archived from the original on December 13, 2023. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Vitcavage, Adam (October 27, 2005). "The Tortoise, Not the Hare: The Millions Interviews Angela Flournoy". The Millions. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Philyaw, Deesha (February 13, 2016). "The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Angela Flournoy". The Rumpus.net. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d "The National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35, 2015 โ€” Angela Flournoy". www.nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  5. ^ "The Risks Angela Flournoy Took". The Seam. 2016-06-23. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
  6. ^ "Angela Flournoy". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  7. ^ Zoe Zolbrod (June 18, 2015). ""There Aint No Haints in Detroit!": An Interview With Author Angela Flournoy". Belt Magazine. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  8. ^ Thomas, Matthew (April 29, 2015). "'The Turner House,' by Angela Flournoy". The New York Times. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  9. ^ Shafrir, Doree (April 25, 2016). "Why America Is Ready For Novelist Angela Flournoy". BuzzFeed. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  10. ^ Flournoy, Angela (24 January 2020). "The Difficulty of Being a Cultural Ambassador in 2020". The New Yorker.
  11. ^ Fassler, Joe (September 1, 2015). "Subverting the Rule of 'Write What You Know'". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 2, 2016.

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