Kim McLarin
{{short description|American writer}}
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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
- Meeting of the Waters (Harper Perennial, 2001)
- Jump at the Sun (William Morrow, 2006)
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
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.kimmclarin.com}}
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American women novelists
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:African-American novelists
Category:Emerson College faculty
Category:Duke University alumni
Category:American women academics
Category:20th-century African-American women writers
Category:20th-century African-American writers
Category:21st-century African-American women writers
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