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Angela Flournoy

Biography

Angela Flournoy

Angela Flournoy's new novel is THE WILDERNESS. Her debut novel, THE TURNER HOUSE, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel won the VCU Cabell First Novel Prize and was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an NAACP Image Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The New School, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. She is a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College.

Flournoy has received fellowships from the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Berlin. She was raised in Southern California by a mother from Los Angeles and a father from Detroit.

Books by Angela Flournoy

by Angela Flournoy - Fiction, Women's Fiction

THE WILDERNESS is an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their 20-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife.