Nancy Rawles

Nancy Rawles is an African American playwright, novelist, and teacher.

Life

Nancy grew up in Los Angeles. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Journalism.

Nancy studied play writing in Chicago with Linda Walsh Jenkins and Steven Carter. She later studied with C. Bernard Jackson of Los Angeles (Inner City) Cultural Center and Valerie Curtis Newton of The Hansberry Project. She is a contributor to the Female Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University under the direction of Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies.^[1]

Awards

• 2009 Seattle Reads MY JIM
• 2007 Artist Trust Fellowship in Fiction
• 2006 American Library Association Alex Award
• 2006 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Fiction
• 2000 Astraea Foundation, Claire of the Moon Award for Fiction
• 1998 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
• 1998 Washington State Governor’s Writers Award

Works

Novels

• Love Like Gumbo. Fjord Press. 1997. ISBN 9780940242753. 
• Crawfish Dreams. Random House, Inc.. 2003. ISBN 9780385504188. http://books.google.com/books?id=TOGCA0Njd18C&dq=Nancy+Rawles&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=SHLkvv7-mB&sig=qrR2RXfLfPen5QwVYEpxqvc2fIs&hl=en&ei=JxAQS_z7GNTblAex7qGfBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBoQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• My Jim. Crown Publishers. 2005. ISBN 9781400054008. 

Criticism

• Rawles, Nancy (July 10, 2005). "Chains of Madness". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070701730.html. Retrieved May 19, 2010. 

Reviews

In Nancy Rawles's third novel, the sad and gripping My Jim, Jim not only lives on as a character but shoulders the burden of inspiration. Thus Rawles's novel joins a now copious literary tradition of writers building their books on antecedent texts...^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/about/about-contributors.html#rawles
2. ^ HELEN SCHULMAN (January 30, 2005). "Never the Twain". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9906E0DA1038F933A05752C0A9639C8B63. 

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Nancy Rawles Revisits a Twain Character for 'My Jim'", NPR, Alan Cheuse, February 22, 2005
• Barbara Lloyd McMichael (May 3, 2009). ""Seattle Reads:" Huck Finn's adventure, Jim's ordeal". The Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2009159597_myjim030.html. 
• Frances Dinger (May 27, 2009). "Author Nancy Rawles retells Twain classic in 'My Jim'". The Seattle University Spectator. http://www.su-spectator.com/2.2663/author-nancy-rawles-retells-twain-classic-in-my-jim-1.241697. 
• Sarah Anne Johnson, ed (2006). The very telling: conversations with American writers. UPNE. ISBN 9781584655947. http://books.google.com/books?id=yOkN0biH6AUC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=Nancy+Rawles&source=bl&ots=XCZIDI5Zah&sig=HnwYHEvXOHGn73LHFLQLbWhkM6s&hl=en&ei=VgoQS7GvCYvtlAftqJWfBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBcQ6AEwBzgo#v=onepage&q=Nancy%20Rawles&f=false. 
• Erin Texeira (April 4, 2005). "'My Jim' adds slave's insight to Huck's story". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/04/entertainment/et-huckfinn4. 
• "The Importance of Place: Lisa Albers talks with prominent local authors about their writing", Seattle Woman

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