Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
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Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is an American writer and historian.[1]
Life[edit]
Rhodes-Pitts is from Houston, Texas, graduated from Harvard and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom.[1]
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Vogue, and Essence among other publications.[1]
She won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for non-fiction in 2006,[2] and has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She won a 2012 Whiting Award.
Harlem Is Nowhere[edit]
Her 2011 book, Harlem Is Nowhere, is the first part of a planned trilogy on African Americans and utopia.[1] The following books in the trilogy will concern Haiti and the Southern United States.[3] Harlem Is Nowhere was named among 100 Notable Books of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.[1] Harlem Is Nowhere developed from Lenox Terminal, a 2004 essay Rhodes-Pitts wrote for Transition magazine. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Dolman Best Travel Book Award.
Bibliography[edit]
- 2011 – Harlem Is Nowhere (Little, Brown & Co/Granta Books)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts - about". Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ^ "Rona Jaffe Foundation Past recipients". Rona Jaffe Foundation. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ^ Jedrzejczak, Antonina (January 25, 2011). "Q&A with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts". Vogue. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Parul Sehgal, "Harlem Revisited: PW Talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts", Publishers Weekly, December 6, 2010
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