Darryl Pinckney

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Darryl Pinckney


Born
Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States
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Darryl Pinckney is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist.

Pinckney grew up in a middle-class African-American family in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended local public schools. He was educated at Columbia University in New York.

Average rating: 3.86 · 3,825 ratings · 502 reviews · 31 distinct worksSimilar authors
Black Deutschland

2.90 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions
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Come Back in September: A L...

3.88 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions
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Blackballed: Black American...

3.48 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions
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High Cotton

3.26 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions
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Busted in New York and Othe...

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Out There: Mavericks of Bla...

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Mary Said What She Said

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“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn’t see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way."
"How I got over”
Darryl Pinckney

“IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.”
Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland

“One thing about pessimism is that it feels sane. Pessimists are those who can't be taken in, people who can't be fooled. I told you so. But it is also a habit of mind. It reconciles us to being powerless. It justifies detachment, indifference. It is even fear of having power....”
Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics

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