Darryl Pinckney | |
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Born | 1953 (age 71–72) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University (BA) |
Genre | Novelist, playwright |
Notable works | High Cotton (1992) |
Notable awards | Whiting Award (1986); Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994) |
Partner | James Fenton |
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Darryl Pinckney (born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist.
Pinckney grew up in a middle-class African-American family in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended local public schools. He was educated at Columbia University in New York City. [1]
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Some of Pinckney's first professional works were theatre texts, plays developed in collaboration with director Robert Wilson. [2] These included the produced works of The Forest (1988) and Orlando (1989). Pinckney returned to theatre with Time Rocker (1995). [3]
His first novel was High Cotton (1992), a semi-autobiographical novel about "growing up black and bourgeois" in 1960s America. His second novel was Black Deutschland (2016), about a young gay black man in Berlin in the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. [4]
Pinckney has published several collections of essays covering topics such as African-American literature, politics, race, and other cultural issues. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books , Granta , Slate , and The Nation . He frequently explores issues of racial and sexual identities, as expressed in literature and society.[ citation needed ]
Pinckney is gay [10] and lives with his partner, English poet James Fenton; the couple has been together since 1989. [11] Pinckney currently lives in New York City, but previously lived with Fenton in Oxfordshire, England. [12]