The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (2012) It was also a New York Times Notable Book for 2012 and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.īlues Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995–2015 (2016)īunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Nov. Young’s previous nonfiction work, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. Three of Young’s books form what he calls “an American trilogy”: To Repel Ghosts (2001), which explores the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat Jelly Roll (2003), a collection of blues poems and Black Maria (2005), a film noir. He is the author of many poetry collections, including Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (2016) and Book of Hours (2014). For nearly a decade, Young was the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and curator of Literary Collections at the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University, before becoming the Poetry Editor for The New Yorker. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University. While a student at Harvard University, he studied under poets Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido and became a member of the Dark Room Collective, a community of African American writers. Kevin Young was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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