Darryl Pinckney
Darryl Pinckney | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) |
| Genre | Novelist, playwright |
| Notable works | High Cotton (1992) |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (1986); Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994) |
| Partner | James Fenton |
| Website | |
| hdarrylpinckney | |
Darryl Pinckney (born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist.
Early life
[edit | edit source]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 City.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Some of Pinckney's first professional works were theatre texts, plays developed in collaboration with director Robert Wilson.[2] These included the produced works of The Forest (1988) and Orlando (1989). Pinckney returned to theatre with Time Rocker (1995).[3]
His first book was High Cotton (1992), a semi-autobiographical novel about "growing up black and bourgeois" in 1960s America. His second novel was Black Deutschland (2016), about a young gay black man in Berlin, Germany, in the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.[4]
Pinckney has published several collections of essays covering topics such as African-American literature, politics, race, and other cultural issues. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Granta, Slate, and The Nation. He frequently explores issues of racial and sexual identities, as expressed in literature and society.[citation needed]
Pinckney's memoir Come Back in September was published in 2022. Rachel Cooke in an interview for The Observer described reading it as "like being at a particularly fabulous literary party. ...But the real star of the show – the book's constant and slightly terrifying presence – is the critic and novelist Elizabeth Hardwick, Pinckney’s friend of more than three decades and the key that first turned the lock on his exciting New York life."[5]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 1986, Whiting Award[6]
- 1992, High Cotton won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.[7]
- 1994, the Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[8]
- 2022, Come Back in September was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography.[9][10]
- 2022, James Tait Black Prize for Biography for Come Back in September[11]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Pinckney is gay[12] and lives with his partner, English poet James Fenton; the couple has been together since 1989.[13] Pinckney currently lives in New York City, but previously lived with Fenton in Oxfordshire, England.[14]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Books
[edit | edit source]- High Cotton (novel; 1992)
- Sold and Gone: African American Literature and U.S. Society (2001)
- Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002)
- Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy (2014)
- Black Deutschland (2016)
- Busted in New York and Other Essays (2019; Foreword by Zadie Smith)[12]
- Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan (2022)
Selected essays
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Theatre texts
[edit | edit source]- (Collaborations with Robert Wilson)
- The Forest (1988)
- Orlando (1989)
- Time Rocker (1995)
- Garrincha - a street opera (2016)
- Mary Said What She Said (2019)
- Dorian (2022)
- Pessoa: since I've been me (2024)
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Darryl Pinckney website
- Darryl Pinckney at the New York Review of Books
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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- 1953 births
- 20th-century African-American writers
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century African-American writers
- 21st-century American essayists
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- African-American LGBTQ people
- African-American male writers
- African-American novelists
- American Book Award winners
- American gay writers
- American LGBTQ novelists
- Columbia College, Columbia University alumni
- Living people
- Novelists from Indiana
- Writers from Indianapolis