![]() ![]() In Take My Hand, inspired by shocking real-life events, Perkins-Valdez tells the story of Civil Townsend, a Black doctor who seeks justice for wrongs done to her patients decades before in 1970s Alabama.īooks will be available for purchase at the library on event night.Ī book signing will follow the presentation. The current chair of the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, she teaches creative writing at American University in Washington, D.C. ![]() She has been a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards, the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Award, and she won the 2011 First Novelist Award from Black Caucus of the American Library Association. The Black Caucus of the American Library Association has awarded it their 2023 Prize for Fiction. It has been awarded the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Fiction. Using “gorgeous, compassionate prose” to continue “our national conversation about people working together to heal our communities” ( The Washington Post), Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of The New York Times bestselling novels Wench and Balm. Dolen Perkins-Valdez New York Times Bestselling Historical Fiction Author Dear readers, I'm so grateful for the recognition Take My Hand is receiving. In conversation with Asali Solomon, author of the novels Disgruntled and Days of Afrekete ![]()
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