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    Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author portrait
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    Maurice Carlos Ruffin

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of The American Daughters, The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You, longlisted for The Story Prize and a finalist for The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and We Cast a Shadow, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and International Dublin Literary Award. A recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction, he has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, the Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance.
    The American Daughters
    The American Daughters
    A Novel
    Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    9780593729410
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 04, 2025
    One World
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You
    The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You
    Stories
    Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    9780593133415
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 21, 2022
    One World
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    We Cast a Shadow
    We Cast a Shadow
    A Novel
    Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    9780525509073
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 04, 2020
    One World
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Books

    The American Daughters
    The American Daughters
    A Novel
    Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    9780593729410
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 04, 2025
    One World
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You
    The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You
    Stories
    Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    9780593133415
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 21, 2022
    One World
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    We Cast a Shadow
    We Cast a Shadow
    A Novel
    Maurice Carlos Ruffin
    9780525509073
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 04, 2020
    One World
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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