Kim McLarin
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Kim McLarin is an African American
novelist. Kim Mclarin is a former staff writer for The New York Times
, The Philadelphia Inquirer
, The Greensboro News & Record and the Associated Press. She is writer-in-residence at Emerson College
in Boston.
McLarin is author of Taming it Down (1998) and Jump at the Sun (2006) together with Meeting of the Waters (2001) and Growing Up X (2002), co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz
.
McLarin is also a host on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African American themes, shown on WGBH
.
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
novelist. Kim Mclarin is a former staff writer for The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...
, The Greensboro News & Record and the Associated Press. She is writer-in-residence at Emerson College
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...
in Boston.
McLarin is author of Taming it Down (1998) and Jump at the Sun (2006) together with Meeting of the Waters (2001) and Growing Up X (2002), co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz
Ilyasah Shabazz
Ilyasah Shabazz is the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. She is the author of a memoir, Growing Up X, and a motivational speaker.-Early life:Shabazz was born in Queens, New York, on July 22, 1962...
.
McLarin is also a host on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African American themes, shown on WGBH
WGBH
WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...
.
Partial bibliography
- Jump at the Sun
- Meeting of the Waters
- Taming it Down
- Growing up X