Darryl Pinckney is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist.
Pinckney grew up in a middle-class African-American family in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended local public schools. He was educated at Columbia University in New York.
Books in order of publication:
High Cotton (novel; 1992)
Sold and Gone: African American Literature and U.S. Society (2001)
Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002)
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy (2014)
Black Deutschland (2016)
Busted in New York and Other Essays (2019; Foreword by Zadie Smith)
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan (2022)
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