Paul Beatty | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | June 9, 1962
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Genre | Fiction, poetry |
Years active | 1990s–present |
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Paul Beatty (born June 9, 1962) is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University.[1] In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. It was the first time a writer from the United States was honored with the Man Booker.