Author Archives: American Writers Museum

Women Writers to Watch in 2020

Add these women writers to your to-read list. By Ariel Parrella-Aureli We are barely into [...]

My America: Juan Martinez

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

AWM Staff Reads: February

Reading Recommendations from the staff of the American Writers Museum. We think Leap Years are [...]

My America: Erika L. Sánchez

The way Mexicans tell stories, the way they find humor in the most difficult circumstances...I [...]

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My America: Yiyun Li

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

My America: Laila Lalami

"I would define being an American as believing in an idea, and the idea is [...]

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 [...]

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