Bayo Ojikutu
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Bayo Ojikutu (born August 27, 1971) is an author based in Chicago (US). He is of Black American and Nigerian heritage. Ojikutu was raised in Chicago, primarily on the city's South Side.
His first novel, 47th Street Black (Random House/Crown, 2003), received both the Washington Prize for Fiction and the Great American Book Award. Ojikutu's short fiction appeared in the 2005 Akashic Press anthology Chicago Noir. His second novel, Free Burning, the tale of a young Chicagoan who is drawn into illicit underworld activities after losing his corporate job, was released by Crown in 2006.
Ojikutu has taught with DePaul University, in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, and with the University of Chicago's Graham School Creative Writing Program.
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- Excerpt from the novel Free Burning, published in Otium
