Vintage Postcard Black Writers
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DARRYL PINCKNEY, New York, N.Y., October 18, 1995
Darryl Pinckney (b. 1953) is an award-winning critic, essayist, and novelist whose witty, brilliant, and lyrical prose has been called as good as any now being written in English. His picaresque debut novel, High Cotton 1992), was lauded for its excruciating honesty and total freedom from restraint.