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Kim McLarin
American writer

Kim McLarin

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American writer
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Female
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United States of America, USA
Age
61 years
Education
Duke University
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Biography

Kim McLarin is an American novelist, best known for Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Jump at the Sun. Her works include contemporary novels, short stories and non-fiction.

Career

McLarin has a bachelor's degree from Duke University.

She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Greensboro News & Record and Associated Press. She is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston.

McLarin is a regular panelist on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African-American themes, shown on WGBH.

McLarin has two children and lives in Boston.

Awards

Won

  • 2007 Fiction Honor Book, of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (for Jump at the Sun)

Nominated

  • 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction (for Jump at the Sun)
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