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Posted on September 25, 2019 at 1:59 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Congratulations to the seven authors who received MacArthur genius grants today!
They’re among the twenty-six total people who can now put their $625,000 no-strings-attached fellowships to use furthering their work in their chosen fields.
The writers honored were:
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Lynda Barry: graphic novelist, cartoonist, and educator
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Saidiya Hartman: literary scholar and cultural historian
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Valeria Luiselli: writer
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Kelly Lytle Hernandez: historian
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Jeffrey Alan Miller: literary scholar
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Ocean Vuong: poet and fiction writer
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Emily Wilson: classicist and translator
See why the MacArthur Foundation honored each of these writers by clicking on their names; to learn more about all of the winners, you can check out NPR’s coverage of their work.
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