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Valerie Haynes Perry
Novelist

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I believe 
Tanner Blue and 
Painted Deserts
will appeal to the audiences of:

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Illusions by Richard Bach

WRITERS WORKSHOPS

Amherst Writers & Artists

VONA (Voices of Our Nations)

Elmaz Abinader

Junot Diaz

Chitra Divakaruni

Diem Jones

Walter Mosley

David Mura

Danzy Senna

Leonard Bishop

James N. Frey

SOME FAVORITES

James Baldwin

Another Country; Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Maryse Condé

Desirada; Segu

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sport of the Gods; The Uncalled

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Percival Everett

Erasure; Glyph; I Am Not Sidney Poitier

L. Kenneth Haynes

The People in 10-F: A Family of Poems

Chester Himes

If Hollers, Let Him Go; Lonely Crusade; Plan B

Langston Hugnes

The Ways of White Folks

Nella Larsen

Passing; Quicksand

Paule Marshall

Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye; Jazz; A Mercy; Tar Baby

Barack Obama

Dreams from My Father

Frederick Douglass Perry

Continuation of a Poem to Myself

Ann Petry

The Narrows; The Street

April Sinclair

Coffee Will Make You Black

Colson Whitehead

Sag Harbor

John Edgar Wideman

Reuben

Richard Wright

The Outsider

You're invited to read my notes on Facebook.




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What if
you remembered being born?
Imagine your awakening....

Henry Ossawa Tanner

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USA Book News: 2008

International Book Awards: 2009 and 2010. Finalist in 2011.


NEW!

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"How can I be a member if I'm the only one?"

Spoken by the protagonist, Isalene Will, a black girl from the projects on Manhattan's Lower East Side


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News for Occupy Oakland


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