Reginald McKnight

Reginald McKnight

Reginald McKnight is an American short story author and novelist. He has won the O. Henry Award, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the Whiting Writer's Award. In addition to writing, McKnight has been a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently the Hamilton Holmes Professor of English at the University of Georgia in Athens. [cite web|url=http://www.archwaytoexcellence.uga.edu/news/050415/mcknight.html |title=Archway eNews: Recruiting and retaining top faculty |publisher=University of Georgia |accessdate=2007-04-22]

Works

* "He Sleeps"
* "Moustapha's Eclipse"
* "I Get on the Bus"
* "The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas"
* "White Boys"

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