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Kiese Laymon

Jackson, MS-born essayist and novelist; author of Heavy: An American Memoir.

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Born 1974 in Jackson, MS. Faculty at Rice University. Heavy (2018) won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Long Division (2021 re-release) was widely cited as one of the year's best novels.

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Houston, TX, USA

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