![]() ![]() ![]() Young’s many other honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and an honorary doctorate from Beloit College. Director of the Schomburg Center, Kevin Young has. Young has also written two award-winning books of non-fiction: The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (2012), the winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (2017), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was named a “Best Book of 2017” by, among others, the LA Times, Vogue, the Atlantic, and Electric Literature. Watch Schomburg Centers Between the Lines: Brown by Kevin Young + Claudia Rankine on. He has published ten books of poetry, including Jelly Roll: A BluesBlue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 (2016), longlisted for the National Book Award and, most recently, Brown (2018). ![]() played on an all-Black baseball team, which I write about in my book, Brown. He was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020. Kevin Young will take over as the second director of Washingtons National. Eliot Prize Brown Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems. Knopf, 2014), winner of the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Young is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including Stones, shortlisted for the T.S. Knopf, 2018) and Book of Hours (Alfred A. Kevin Young is the poetry editor at The New Yorker and the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Kevin Young's poetry collections include Brown (Alfred A. ![]()
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