Darryl Pinckney (born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist. He grew up in a middle class African-American family in the midwest and was educated at Columbia University.[1] He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Granta, Slate, and The Nation. Pinckney is the author of High Cotton, a semi-autobiographical novel about "growing up black and bourgeois" in 1960s America which was awarded the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 1992.[2] Additionally, he won the Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994.[3] Pinckney has also expressed his admiration for the long-running CBS soap opera, As the World Turns.[4] His partner is English poet, James Fenton; the couple has been together since 1989.[5] Pinckney lives in New York City and Oxfordshire, England.[6]
Theatre texts (collaborations with Robert Wilson):