Kim McLarin

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.

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.

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)