Name Stephanie Watts | ||
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Books We are Taking Only what We Need | ||
Tayari Jones | An American Marriage with Stephanie Powell Watts | We Are Taking Only What We Need
2017 ALA Annual Conference - Stephanie Powell Watts on Books, Influence, Libraries
Stephanie Powell Watts is an American author. She won a Whiting Award in 2013 and an Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence in 2012 for her book We are Taking Only what We Need a collection of 11 stories which chronicles the lives of African-Americans in North Carolina. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize.
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- Tayari Jones An American Marriage with Stephanie Powell Watts We Are Taking Only What We Need
- 2017 ALA Annual Conference Stephanie Powell Watts on Books Influence Libraries
- Life
- Works
- References
Watts' debut novel, No One Is Coming to Save Us, was published by Ecco in 2017. The story follows the return of a successful native son to his home in North Carolina and his attempt to join the only family he ever wanted but never had. As Ms. Watts describes it, “Imagine The Great Gatsby set in rural North Carolina, nine decades later, with desperate black people.”
Life
Watts was born in the foothills of North Carolina. She received her BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She now lives with her husband and son in Pennsylvania where she is an associate professor of English at Lehigh University.
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