Phil Henderson (writer)
Phil Henderson | |
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Born | Atlanta, Georgia , United States | November 2, 1967
Pen name | Philip Lewis, P. Lewis |
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Genre | Fiction, non-fiction, poetry |
Phil Henderson, aka Philip Lewis or P. Lewis (born November 2, 1967, in
Biography
He grew up in
Upon his return to the United States he edited a small literary magazine called Cafe Noir.[citation needed]
After graduating from Howard University in 1992, Henderson became a member of the Fiction Collective Two, with whom he published his first novel, Life of Death, under a nom-de-plume. Between 1993 and 2004 Henderson published only sporadically in small journals. In 1999 he began doing erotic illustrations celebrating the well-fleshed, voluptuous woman. Many of these illustrations were published in his book Extreme Curves in 2004.
In 2006, Phil Henderson, as P. Lewis, won the American Book Award for his second published novel, Nate.[3] The novel took five years to write and went through eight different drafts. It was finished in 1998, yet rejected so relentlessly that Henderson published it under his own imprint, eight years later.
He has recently completed a novel about
Bibliography
- Life of Death, 1993
- Extreme Curves. Amerotica. October 31, 2004. ISBN 978-1-56163-416-3.
- Nate. Back House Books. January 15, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9671951-0-0.
- Extreme Curves: Phat Girls. Amerotica. September 2008. ISBN 978-1-56163-545-0.
References
- ^ Dunham, Jeffrey B. "Philip Lewis," Contemporary African-American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson. Greenwood Press, 1999: pp. 279–283.
- ^ Scribd.com
- ^ Ankn.uaf.edu Archived 2009-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Culturaldiplomacy.org