Claudia Rankine Wins a National Book Critics Circle Award

p_claudia_rankineClaudia Rankine, the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, California, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for her book Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014).

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Rankine’s poetry recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Citizen is her fifth published poetry collection.

Earlier this year, Professor Rankine made literary history when she was the first author to have a work nominated as a finalist in two categories in the 39-year history of the National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Professor Rankine is a native of Jamaica. She is a graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and holds a master of fine arts degree in poetry from Columbia University.

Also of possible interest to JBHE readers is that Yale Professor David Brion Davis won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the general nonfiction category for his book The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014).

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