| LC control no. | n 87852434 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3561.E4228 |
| Personal name heading | Kenan, Randall |
| Other standard no. | Q3930018 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3930018 |
| Biography/History note | Randall Kenan is an African American author. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1963-03-12 |
| Death date | 2020-08-29 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Columbia University Sarah Lawrence College Duke University |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Dramatists College teachers |
| Found in | His A visitation of spirits, c1989: CIP t.p. (Randall Kenan) pub. info. (25 years old) His A visitation of spirits, 1990, c1989: CIP t.p. (Randall Kenan) data sheet (b. 1963) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Kenan, Randall; Randall Garrett Kenan; fiction writer, dramatist, educator; born 12 March 1963 in New York, New York, United States; BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1985); worked for Alfred A. Knopf publishers in New York City until 1989; taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University; his book Let the Dead Bury Their Dead was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, one of the New York Times's Notable Books of 1992; was a visiting Professor at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Mississippi in Oxford, and the University of Memphis; in 2003 returned to his alma mater as an associate professor of English) African American review, volume 29, number 3 (Fall 1995), page 411 (online): A conversation with Randall Kenan (I came from something of a black gentry in the South) <https://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=283cafc6-b282-4055-8f1f-0179fec6c107%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=9512100131&db=f5h> WRAL, viewed August 29, 2020 (Randall Kenan ; has died [08/29/2020] ; professor at UNC) <https://www.wral.com/unc-english-professor-key-writer-on-black-and-gay-culture-passes-away/19260504/> |
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