Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including IN THE LANGUAGE OF MY CAPTOR, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; SOMETIMES I NEVER SUFFERED, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; and his most recent collection, CAIN NAMED THE ANIMAL. McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Books by Shane McCrae

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

by Shane McCrae - Memoir, Nonfiction

PULLING THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN is an unforgettable memoir by award-winning poet Shane McCrae about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.