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Randall Kenan

Born

in The United States

March 12, 1963

Died

August 28, 2020

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Randall Kenan's first novel, A Visitation of Spirits was published by Grove Press in 1989; and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, was published in 1992 by Harcourt, Brace. That collection was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was among The New York Times Notable Books of 1992. He was also the author of a young adult biography of James Baldwin (1993), and wrote the text for Norman Mauskoff=s book of photographs, A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta (1997). Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1999, and was nominated for the Southern Book Award.

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	If I Had Two Wings 3.83 avg rating — 873 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Visitation of Spirits 3.84 avg rating — 841 ratings — published 1989 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let The Dead Bury Their Dead: Essential Southern Stories of Magic, Folklore, and Black Gay Life in America (Harvest American Writing Series) 4.28 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan by Randall Kenan, Randall Kenan 4.19 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food 3.93 avg rating — 98 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fire This Time 4.02 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century 4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	27 Views of Hillsborough 3.76 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	James Baldwin by Randall Kenan, Amy Sickels 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1978 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racing Home: New Stories by Award-Winning North Carolina Writers 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You have the power to define yourself — remember that power; take that control. It’s like a superpower, really, to be whom you want to be, to do what you want to do, to fly where you want to fly. Your life will get more complicated, but think of it as a great adventure, every damn day. You’re going to have fun.”
― Randall Kenan

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“What feeling do you have that is not tied up with history?”
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“Old Demonology: '... And so forth. Not that success, for him, is sure, infallible But never has he been afraid to reach. His lesions are legion. But reaching is his rule.' - Gwendolyn Brooks”
― Randall Kenan, A Visitation of Spirits

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What shall we read in December, 2025? Books published after 1990.

A Land More Kind Than Home, by Wiley Cash

12 votes 38.7%

Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta, by Richard Grant

6 votes 19.4%

Necessary Lies, by Diane Chamberlain

4 votes 12.9%

The List, by Steve Berry

3 votes 9.7%

If I Had Two Wings, by Randall Kenan

3 votes 9.7%

The Floating Girls, by Lo Patrick

3 votes 9.7%

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