Nancy Rawles
Encyclopedia
Nancy Rawles is an African American playwright
, novelist, and teacher
.
. She graduated from Northwestern University
with a degree in Journalism.
Nancy studied play writing in Chicago with Linda Walsh Jenkins and Steven Carter
. She later studied with C. Bernard Jackson
of Los Angeles (Inner City) Cultural Center and Valerie Curtis Newton of The Hansberry Project. She is a contributor to the Female Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University
under the direction of Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies.
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, novelist, and teacher
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
.
Life
Nancy grew up in Los AngelesLos Ángeles
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. She graduated from Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
with a degree in Journalism.
Nancy studied play writing in Chicago with Linda Walsh Jenkins and Steven Carter
Steve Carter (playwright)
Horace E. "Steve" Carter, Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his plays involving Caribbean immigrants living in the United States.-Biography:...
. She later studied with C. Bernard Jackson
C. Bernard Jackson
C. Bernard Jackson was an award-winning American playwright who founded the Inner City Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Inner City was one of the first arts institutions in the United States to promote multiculturalism...
of Los Angeles (Inner City) Cultural Center and Valerie Curtis Newton of The Hansberry Project. She is a contributor to the Female Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
under the direction of Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies.
Awards
- 2009 Seattle Reads MY JIM
- 2007 Artist Trust Fellowship in Fiction
- 2006 American Library Association Alex Award
- 2006 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Fiction
- 2000 Astraea Foundation, Claire of the Moon Award for Fiction
- 1998 American Book AwardAmerican Book AwardThe American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
, Before Columbus FoundationBefore Columbus FoundationThe Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, Victor Hernández Cruz, Shawn Wong and Rudolfo Anaya to be "a multi-ethnic organizing dedicated to promoting a pan-cultural view of America," especially through the promotion of multicultural writers.One of... - 1998 Washington State Governor’s Writers Award
Reviews
In Nancy Rawles's third novel, the sad and gripping My Jim, Jim not only lives on as a character but shoulders the burden of inspiration. Thus Rawles's novel joins a now copious literary tradition of writers building their books on antecedent texts...