David Wright Faladé, a recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, is the author of fiction and nonfiction works, including Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. He has written for the New Yorker, Village Voice, Southern Review, Newsday, and more. He is a professor of English at the University of Illinois. |