![]() ![]() Dolen is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is Associate Professor in the Literature Department at American University in Washington, DC. In 2013, Dolen wrote the introduction to a special edition of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave, published by Simon & Schuster, which became a New York Times bestseller. She lives in Washington, DC with her family. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Dolen received a DC Commission on the Arts Grant for her second novel Balm which was published by HarperCollins in 2015. Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench and Balm. Jones, Louise Erdrich, and Zora Neale Hurston. In 2017, HarperCollins released it as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that included books by Edward P. Wench was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction. Twitter: Bio: Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the the New York Times bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and the forthcoming novel Take My Hand (Berkley Books 2022). Number one on my bucket list: Learn to play the banjo ![]() If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: Professional crocheterįavorite decade in fashion history: 1970s ![]()
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