Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is an American writer, best known for her 2010 debut novel Wench.
Career
Perkins-Valdez was inspired to write her debut novel Wench while reading an autobiography on W.E.B. Dubois that mentioned in passing that the land for Wilberforce University had once been used for a privately owned resort called Tawawa House where white slave owners would bring the black slaves they kept as mistresses.[1] Wench, about a young slave named Lizzie and her complicated relationship with the man who owns her, was published by Harper Collins in 2010. It received positive reviews.[2] The novel was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library in 2011.[3]
In 2013 she wrote an introductory essay to the rerelease of Solomon Northup's autobiography Twelve Years a Slave.
Her second novel, Balm: A Novel was published in May of 2015.
Bibliography
- Wench: A Novel (2010)
- Balm: A Novel (2015)
References
- ↑ O'Neal Parker, Lonnae. "A tender spot in master-slave relations". Retrieved 15 April 2015.
- ↑ Nelson, Samantha. "Dolen Perkins-Valdez: Wench". Retrieved 15 April 2015.
- ↑ http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934915.html. Retrieved 15 April 2015. Missing or empty
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