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After practicing law a dozen years, the last three in Dallas, I left law to run an engineering company in Chicago. If you've ever been to a baseball game at US Cellular Field (which was "New" Comiskey Park when we worked on it), you can thank my engineers that it didn't collapse when everyone jumped up and down at the same time.
Having been a writer since I first learned to do it, I decided I really must be one for real when I won a residency The MacDowell Colony. (Pathetic, but true that it took that to finally convince me.)
My first book was published in 2002: WHEN RACE BECOMES REAL: BLACK AND WHITE WRITERS CONFRONT THEIR PERSONAL HISTORIES. It received widespread literary acclaim, won awards, and is still an outstanding read if I do say so myself. And, yeah, I do say so. It was republished in 2008.
One day, there will be more books in print with my name on em...somewhere other than on the page where I've written my name to remind friends who borrow my books to give em back.
A native of Charlotte, NC, I was born and grew up in the apartheid US south of the 50s and 60s. I left my completely black segregated life in the late 60s to go integrate--by race, gender, class, and attitude--entire regions of the country, workplaces, neighborhoods, and various other settings.
I write about what it was like then and what it's still like now.
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