Paul Beatty

author, 'The Sellout'

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Author of the novel The Sellout

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Los Angeles-born writer Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He won for The Sellout , a racial satire set in south LA.

Man Booker Prize winner on being black in America

Los Angeles-born writer Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He won for The Sellout , a racial satire set in south LA.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Paul Beatty’s new novel is an acerbic and absurdist look at what it means to be black in America.

A Conversation With Paul Beatty

Paul Beatty’s new novel is an acerbic and absurdist look at what it means to be black in America.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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