Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton is an American novelist.[1]

Biography

Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at the University of California at Berkeley.[1]

She was a recipient of the Lombard Fellowship and spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing.[1]

Her debut novel A Kind of Freedom made the New York Times "100 Notable Books" list[2], and the Editor's Choice list[3] in 2017. Her second novel, The Revisioners, was named one of the most anticipated books of fall 2019 by Parade magazine.[4]

Sexton won the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association,[5] and the Crook's Corner Book Prize for A Kind of Freedom[6]. She was also nominated for a 2017 National Book Award by the National Book Foundation.[7]

At the 2020 NAACP Image Awards she was the winner in the Fiction category for her 2019 novel The Revisioners.[8]

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References
  1. "Margaret Wilkerson Sexton". Counterpoint Press. May 9, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  2. "100 Notable Books of 2017". November 22, 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  3. "11 New Books We Recommend This Week". September 14, 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. Johnson, Ashley (August 1, 2019). "The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019". Parade.
  5. "The Revisioners". February 22, 2019.
  6. "Margaret Wilkerson Sexton wins $5000 Crook's Corner Book Prize". Press release, January 7, 2019.
  7. "Margaret Wilkerson Sexton".
  8. "2020 NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List", ET, February 22, 2020.
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