Kim McLarin

{{short description|American writer}}

{{use mdy dates|date=January 2020}}

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1964}}

| birth_place = United States

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| education = Duke University (BA)

| occupation = Writer

| website = {{url|https://www.kimmclarin.com/}}

| language = English

| years_active = 1998-now

| genre = non-fiction, contemporary, short stories

| children = 2

| notableworks = Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X, Jump at the Sun

| awards = 2007 Fiction Honor Book, of the Massachusetts Center for the Book, 2007 Fiction Honor Book, of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association

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Kim McLarin (born 1964) is an American novelist, best known for Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Jump at the Sun.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12|title=Malcolm X's Daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, Writes Book, 'Growing Up X'|date=June 3, 2002|work=Jet|page=12|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|access-date=January 16, 2011}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2003/02/04/Book-of-the-week-Growing-up-X/UPI-32871044379670/|title=Book of the Week: 'Growing Up X'|last=Saad|first=Shirley|date=February 4, 2003|publisher=UPI|access-date=January 16, 2011}}
Her works include contemporary novels, short stories and non-fiction.

Career

McLarin has a bachelor's degree from Duke University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.emerson.edu/academics/faculty-guide/profile/kimberly-mclarin/102|title=Kimberly Mclarin {{!}} Faculty|website=Emerson College|access-date=2019-04-12}}

She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Greensboro News & Record and Associated Press. She is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston.[http://www.emerson.edu/academics/departments/writing-literature-publishing/faculty?facultyID=102&filter=F "Kimberly McLarin"], Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty, Emerson College.
- Kim McLarin, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/fashion/03love.html "Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me"], New York Times, September 3, 2006.
- Kim McLarin, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042304907.html Biog note], Washington Post, April 24, 2010.

McLarin is a regular panelist on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African-American themes, shown on WGBH.[http://www.wgbh.org/article/?item_id=3637988 Basic Black], WGBH.

McLarin has two children and lives in Boston.{{Cite web|url=http://www.literarymama.com/profiles/archives/2008/02/kim-mclarin.html|title=An Interview with Kim McLarin|website=Literary Mama|access-date=April 12, 2019}}

Bibliography

Contemporary

Short stories

  • in Black Silk (A Collection Of African American Erotica) (2002)

Non-fiction

  • Taming It Down (Warner Books, 1998)
  • Growing up X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz (Thorndike Press, 2002)
  • This Child Will Be Great, co-authored with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Harper/HarperCollins, 2009){{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ellen-johnson-sirleaf-45029/this-child-will-be-great/|title=THIS CHILD WILL BE GREAT {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}
  • Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood, and Midlife (C&r Press, 2012)
  • Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life (Ig Publishing, 2019)
  • James Baldwin's Another Country (Ig Publishing, 2021){{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kim-mclarin/james-baldwins-another-country/|title=JAMES BALDWIN'S ANOTHER COUNTRY {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}

Awards

Won

  • 2007 Fiction Honor Book, of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (for Jump at the Sun){{Cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/news/news/pressreleases2007/january2007/bcala07|title=BCALA announces 2007 Literary Awards|last= |publisher=American Library Association|date=March 1, 2007|website= |access-date=April 12, 2019}}

Nominated

  • 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction (for Jump at the Sun){{Cite web|url=https://www.fictiondb.com/awards/2007~hurstonwright-legacy-award~117.htm|title=2007 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Winners|website=FictionDB|access-date=April 12, 2019}}

References

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