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.

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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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