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Literary representation: Eric Simonoff, William Morris Endeavor.

He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois. His work has been recognized by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Texas Institute of Letters. Scott Simon talks to novelist David Wright Falade about his new book, 'Black Cloud Rising,' about the leader of an all-Black brigade in the Civil War. Louis Post-Dispatch named it one of its Best Books of 2001.Īway Running was named an Outstanding International Book by the US Board on Books for Young People and was selected by the Junior Library Guild and the Texas Library Association for its high school reading lists.Īn excerpt from Black Cloud Rising, entitled “The Sand Banks, 1861,” appeared in the New Yorker.Ī former Fulbright Fellow to Brazil, David Wright Faladé is the 2021-22 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow of the NY Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers. DAVID WRIGHT FALADÉ is a professor of English at the University of Illinois. Philip Graham, author of How to Read an Unwritten Language, Praise for Black Cloud Rising : David Wright Falads thrilling, revelatory Black Cloud. The New Yorker chose Fire on the Beach as one of its notable selections, and the St.

David Wright Faladé is the author of three books : the narrative history Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, and the novels Away Running and most recently, Black Cloud Rising.