American Writers Museum, Author at The American Writers Museum

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

05
Feb

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

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31
Jan

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

29
Jan

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

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Jan

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

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Jan

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

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Jan

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

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Jan

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

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Jan

"I believe to be American there is a passion for wanting to expand the definition [...]

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Jan

Susan Muaddi Darraj is a Palestinian-American writer who has won multiple awards for her short [...]

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Jan