Dolen is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Shot through with spirit and hope, its one hell of a book Stylist, Books You Cant Miss in 2022. Dolen’s forthcoming novel Take My Hand will be published by Berkley Books/Penguin in 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, StorySouth, and elsewhere. This is the context, and backdrop, of Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s affecting new novel, Take My Hand, which hones in on the horrific forced annual sterilization of between 100,000 and 150,000 recipients of welfare benefits in the 1970s, inspired by the true story of Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf. Dolen wrote the introduction to a special edition of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave (Simon & Schuster) which also became a New York Times bestseller. Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Author Of 'Take My Hand,' Talks The Black Female Body And America's History Of Involuntary Sterilization 'Civil rights struggles in this country have always incorporated. Jones, Louise Erdrich, and Zora Neale Hurston. In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that included books by Edward P. *USA Today* called Wench "deeply moving" and "beautifully written." *People* called it "a devastatingly beautiful account of a cruel past." *O, The Oprah Magazine* chose it as a Top Ten Pick of the Month, and NPR named it a top 5 book club pick of 2010. Dolen Perkins-Valdez Assoc Professor Department of Literature Contact (202) 885-2978ĭolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels: Wench and Balm.
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