Nathan McCall
{{short description|American journalist}}
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| birth_place = Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.
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Nathan McCall (born 1955) is an American author and journalist. He has written in the genres of novel, memoir, biography, and social commentary, often focusing on the African-American experience.
Biography
As the stepson of a Navy man, McCall grew up in various locations, such as Morocco, Norfolk, Virginia and the Cavalier Manor section of Portsmouth, Virginia. After serving three years in prison, he studied journalism at Norfolk State University. He reported for The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before moving to The Washington Post In 1989.
In his first book, Makes Me Wanna Holler, McCall provides a detailed story of his life of violence and street crime, as well as the hardships he experienced growing up with racial profiling, class differences and peer pressure. He describes, in graphic detail, gang-rapes and violent assaults he participated in during his youth.{{cite web|date=February 27, 1994|title=A Furious Man|first=Adam|last=Hochschild|authorlink=Adam Hochschild|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/04/specials/mccall-holler.html|work=The New York Times}}{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/1994-02-16/entertainment/25860013_1_nathan-mccall-crime-anger|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503102350/http://articles.philly.com/1994-02-16/entertainment/25860013_1_nathan-mccall-crime-anger|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 3, 2012|first=Kevin L.|last=Carter|title=Driven By Rage From Prison To Print|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=February 16, 1994}}{{cite web|date=October 5, 2018|title=Lindsey Graham, Here Is the Ugly, Gut-Wrenching Reality About Gang Rape (and Why Men Get Away With It)|first=Isaac|last=Bailey|url=https://www.theroot.com/lindsey-graham-here-is-the-ugly-gut-wrenching-reality-1829504894|work=The Root}}{{cite web|work=Los Angeles Times|title=Focusing Only on Racism Blinds Author to Sexism|author=Abcarian, Robin|date=April 6, 1994|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-06-vw-42597-story.html}}{{Cite web |last=Boyer |first=Edward J. |date=1994-03-20 |title=A Change in Perception: MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER: A Young Black Man in America |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-20-bk-36116-story.html |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
His second book, What's Going On, used personal essays to discuss some larger issues such as social, cultural, and political tensions that affect the modern day United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/02/bib/971102.rv125022.html|first=Michael E.|last=Ross|title=Books|work=The New York Times|date=November 2, 1997}}
After the success of his books, McCall was in demand as a speaker. He left The Washington Post for the lecture circuit. Today he continues to write, and holds the post of lecturer in the Department of African-American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
His first novel Them: A Novel, dealing with issues of gentrification in an Atlanta neighborhood, was published in 2007. Them tells the story of Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-something African-American man, who has to come to terms with the gentrification of his neighborhood, in particular the influx of white people to the area.{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/12/mccall|first=Laura|last=Miller|title=The strangers next door|work=Salon|date=November 12, 2007}}{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2007-11-12-mccall-them_N.htm|first=Jocelyn|last=McClurg|title=Race, real estate become a flashpoint in 'Them'|work=USA Today|date=November 12, 2007}}
In an April 2014 interview with Ebony magazine, McCall stated that he was amazed that Makes Me Wanna Holler was still selling after 20 years.{{cite web|title=Nathan McCall: 20 Years After 'Makes Me Wanna Holler'|url=http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/nathan-mccall-20-years-after-makes-me-wanna-holler-304#axzz4MFMK1aVa|work=Ebony|author=Washington, Nicholas L.|date=April 15, 2014}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.nathanmccall.net}}
- [http://aas.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/mccall-nathan.html Faculty bio] at Emory University
- {{IMDb name|2856419}}
- {{C-SPAN|34890}}
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:African-American non-fiction writers
Category:African-American novelists
Category:American male journalists
Category:American male novelists
Category:Norfolk State University alumni
Category:The Atlanta Journal-Constitution people
Category:Novelists from Virginia
Category:American male essayists
Category:People from Portsmouth, Virginia
Category:20th-century American essayists
Category:21st-century American essayists
Category:Journalists from Virginia
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:21st-century American male writers