Author Archives: American Writers Museum

In Their Own Words: Nicholas Buccola

On February 18, 1965 James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. engaged in an iconic [...]

My America: R.O. Kwon

I didn’t start reading Korean American writers until after college, and the first ones I [...]

AWM Staff Reads: January

Reading Recommendations from the staff of the American Writers Museum. This past month in Chicago [...]

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask

Ahead of our February 6, 2020 screening and discussion of the feature-length documentary Paul Laurence [...]

My America: Joe Ide

Each week, the My America blog series introduces you to one of the writers featured in our [...]

In Their Own Words: Layla Saad

In the summer of 2018, globally-respected writer, speaker and podcast host Layla Saad ran a [...]

My America: Laila Halaby

"After 9/11 people wanted to understand, like, what are Arabs? Or they didn’t want to [...]

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“But Where Are You Really From?”

Bestselling author Julissa Arce discusses the trials and importance of writing about and for Latinx [...]

My America: Reyna Grande

For me, writing was an act of survival because it got me through all those [...]

In Their Own Words: Isabel Ibañez

It wasn’t until much later that I recognized why, and when I did, I embraced [...]

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