![]() Set in the mid 19th Century, Wench offers a fictionalized account of a very real and strange practice. Recently, Dolen has written the Introduction for a 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell's 1984.ĭolen is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. 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. Jones, Louise Erdrich, and Zora Neale Hurston. ![]() ![]() In 2017, HarperCollins released her first novel Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that included books by Edward P. The Washington Post called it "a jewel of a book."ĭolen has established herself as a pre-eminent chronicler of American historical life. It was named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 in Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Essence, NBC News, and elsewhere, and it was an IndieNext and LibraryReads pick for April 2022. Take My Hand was awarded the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Literary Work-Fiction and the BCALA Fiction Award. Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and most recently Take My Hand (2022). ![]()
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