Brit Bennett

Brit Bennett is an American writer.

In 2016, The New York Times said Bennett's debut novel The Mothers is "shaping up to be one of the fall’s biggest literary debuts, with an initial printing of 108,000 copies and starred reviews in Booklist, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly."[1] Bennett has been named to the National Book Foundation "5 under 35" list,[2] and Vogue said Bennett's "nonfiction essays, from a history of black dolls and the racial privileging of innocence for the Paris Review blog to a post about white intention on Jezebel that generated more than a million hits in three days, recall Ta-Nehisi Coates [with] a similar ability to contextualize the present moment in a bigoted past."[3]

Bennett earned an English degree from Stanford University and an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan.

References

  1. ↑ Alter, Alexandra (9 October 2016). "'The Mothers,' a Debut Novel, Is Already Creating a Stir". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Bass, Patrik Henry (4 October 2016). "Meet Brit Bennett, A Writer on the Come Up". Essence. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  3. ↑ O'Grady, Megan (September 21, 2016). "Brit Bennett on Her Buzzed-About Debut Novel, The Mothers". Vogue. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
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