Born | United States |
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Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Kim McLarin is an African American novelist. Kim Mclarin is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Greensboro News & Record and the Associated Press. She is writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston.[1][2][3]
McLarin is author of Taming it Down (1998) and Jump at the Sun (2006) together with Meeting of the Waters (2001) and Growing Up X (2002), co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz.[4][5]
McLarin is also a host on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African American themes, shown on WGBH.[6]