Background
Pinckney grew up in a middle-class African-American family in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended local public schools.
( An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of u...)
An elegant, insightful novel that evokes the world of upper-middle-class blacks, following an unnamed narrator from a safe childhood in conservative Indianapolis, to a brief tenure as minister of information for a local radical organization, to the life of an expatriate in Paris. Through it all, his imagination is increasingly dominated by his elderly relations and the lessons of their experiences in the "Old Country" of the South.
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Pinckney grew up in a middle-class African-American family in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended local public schools.
Student, Columbia University. Student, Princeton University.
Pinckney became a writer Some of his first professional works were theatre texts, plays developed in collaboration with director Robert Wilson. These included the produced works of The Forest (1988) and Orlando (1989).
His first novel is High Cotton (1992), a semi-autobiographical novel about "growing up black and bourgeois" in 1960s America.
He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Review of, Granta, Slate, and The Nation. He frequently explores issues of racial and sexual identities, as expressed in literature.
He returned to theatre with Time Rocker (1995). In the 21st century, Pinckney has published two collections of essays on African-American literature.
He has expressed his admiration for the writing of the long-running American Columbia Broadcasting System soap opera, As the World Turns.
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