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Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Biography

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of WENCH, BALM and TAKE MY HAND. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, DC with her family.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Books by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Fiction, Historical Fiction

The New York Times bestselling author of WENCH returns to the Civil War era to explore the next chapter of history --- the end of slavery --- in this powerful story of love and healing about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future.

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of CANE RIVER by Lalita Tademy and the moral complexities of Edward P. Jones’s THE KNOWN WORLD as it tells the story of four black enslaved women in the years preceding the Civil War.