Randall Kenan, born in Brooklyn, New York on March 12, 1963, was an American author of nonfiction and fiction. Kenan, who was raised in a rural community in North Carolina, focused his fiction work on what it means to be gay and black in the southern United States.
Books in order of publication:
Standalone Novels
| A Visitation of Spirits | (1989) |
Collections
| Let The Dead Bury Their Dead And Other Stories | (1992) | |
| Racing Home | (2001) | |
| If I Had Two Wings | (2020) |
Non-Fiction Books
| James Baldwin | (1993) | |
| A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta | (1997) | |
| Walking On Water: Black American Lives At The Turn Of The Twenty First Century | (1999) | |
| The Fire This Time | (2008) | |
| The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food | (2016) |
Anthologies
| Twenty-Seven Views of Hillsborough | (2010) |
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