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    Randall Kenan

    Randall Kenan grew up in Chinquapin, North Carolina, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Columbia University, Duke, and the University of Mississippi, and is now at the University of Memphis. He is the author of a novel, A Visitation of Spirits, and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. Among his awards are the Mary Francis Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writer's Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Prix de Rome
    Walking on Water
    Walking on Water
    Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
    Randall Kenan
    9780679737889
    $27.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 22, 2000
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB

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    Walking on Water
    Walking on Water
    Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
    Randall Kenan
    9780679737889
    $27.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 22, 2000
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB

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