2011 Presenters
Kim McLarin
Boston-based Kim McLarin is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Taming it Down, Meeting of the Waters, and Jump at the Sun, all published by William Morrow. She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Greensboro News & Record, and the Associated Press. Her latest novel, Jump at the Sun, was nominated for a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in fiction, chosen by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as a 2007 Fiction Honor Book, and chosen by the Massachusetts Center for the Book as a 2007 Massachusetts Book Awards Honor Book. She is writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston and host of Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African American themes, shown on WGBH.
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