![]() ![]() Young's nonfiction book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, was long-listed for the National Book Award, and named a New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, and a Best Book of 2017 by numerous publications. His collection Jelly Roll: A Blues was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. ![]() He is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose, including Brown Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and Book of Hours, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. ![]() Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Kevin Young is poetry editor for the New Yorker and the Andrew W. ![]()
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