Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author portrait
© Norman E. Jones

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Take My Hand (2022), which was awarded an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and a Fiction award from the Black Caucus American Library Association, and was long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. A three-time nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship, Dolen is widely considered a preeminent chronicler of American historical life.
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Happy Land
Take My Hand

Events

Sat Apr 05
Hilton Garden Inn-Waldorf
10385 O'Donnell Place
Waldorf, MD 20603
Google Map

Tue Apr 08 | 07:00 PM
Politics & Prose Bookstore
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008-2024
Google Map

Wed Apr 09
Exploration Commons
30 E Main St
Westminster, MD 21157
Google Map

Thu Apr 10
First Baptist Decatur Church
308 Clairemont Ave
Decatur, GA 30030
Google Map

Fri Apr 11 | 06:00 PM
Novel
387 Perkins Extd
Memphis, TN 38117-3801
Google Map

Tue Apr 15
Malaprop's Bookstore
55 Haywood St
Asheville, NC 28801-2834
Google Map

Wed Apr 16
M. Judson
130 S Main St
Greenville, SC 29601-4870
Google Map

Thu Apr 17
Bookmarks
634 W 4th St 110
Winston Salem, NC 27101-2730
Google Map

Sat May 17
Gaithersburg Book Festival Gaithersburg's Bohrer Park
506 S Frederick Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Google Map

Sat May 31
GREEDY READS LLC
320 W 29TH ST
BALTIMORE, MD 21211-2909
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