Background
Rhodes was born and raised in Manchester, a largely African-American neighborhood on the North Side of Pittsburgh.
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Ninth Ward By Rhodes, Jewell Parker ( Author ) 2012 ) Paperback
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Magic City
(Tulsa, 1921: A white woman and a black man are alone in a...)
Tulsa, 1921: A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man runs out and the chase to capture and lynch him begins. Magic City weaves history, mysticism and murder into a tightly plotted tale of ordinary yet heroic characters. Joe Samuels, a young black man trying to be the next Houdini, must solve the riddle of his brother's ghost and find a way to escape being lynched for a rape he did not commit. Mary Keane, a young white woman, must find a way to free herself from her own loneliness and fight to make townsfolk listen to her and exonerate Joe. Ghosts, magic, jail escapes and a visitation from Houdini create the backdrop for Joe's and Mary's journeys of self-discovery and racial understanding. A harrowing and mythic tale of dreams, magic and violence gone awry, Magic City leads the reader through twists and turns to a conflagration of destruction and revelation.
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
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She received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama Criticism, a Master of Arts in English, and a Doctor of Arts in English (Creative Writing) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Career
Rhodes is professor of Creative and American Literature and former Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative at Arizona State University. Rhodes is the Artistic Director for Global Engagement and the Piper Endowed Chair of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative at Arizona State University. As a child, she was a voracious reader.
She began college as a dance major, but switched to writing when she discovered African-American literature for the first time.
Her work has been published in China, of Korea, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for National Public Radio"s "Selected Shorts." She has been a featured speaker at the Runnymeade International Literary Festival (University of London-Royal Holloway), Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference and Warwick University, among others
Achievements
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Jewell Parker Rhodes has been awarded the California State University Distinguished Teaching Award, Arizona State University"s Dean"s Quality Teaching Award, Outstanding Thesis Director from the Barrett Honors College, and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Extended Education. She is a member of the Arizona/International Women"s Forum and a Renaissance Weekend invitee.
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Magic City
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- Ninth Ward By Rhodes, Jewell Parker ( Author ) 2012 ) Paperback
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Magic City
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United States
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Gold Award; Outstanding Faculty Award; American Book award; Jane Addams Children's Book Award; PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award Writing 2003: American Book Award (Douglass' Women) 2003: Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Fiction (Douglass' Women) 2003: PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award 2010: Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award (Ninth Ward) 2011: Coretta Scott King Honor Award (Ninth Ward) 2014: Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Sugar) Teaching Jewell Parker Rhodes has been awarded the California State University Distinguished Teaching Award, ASU's Dean's Quality Teaching Award, Outstanding Thesis Director from the Barrett Honors College, and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Extended Education. She is a member of the Arizona/International Women's Forum and a Renaissance Weekend invitee. The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award is for U.S. multicultural writers, to 'promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multicultural work'.; Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality.Gold Award; Outstanding Faculty Award; American Book award; Jane Addams Children's Book Award; PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award Writing 2003: American Book Award (Douglass' Women) 2003: Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Fiction (Douglass' Women) 2003: PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award 2010: Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award (Ninth Ward) 2011: Coretta Scott King Honor Award (Ninth Ward) 2014: Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Sugar) Teaching Jewell Parker Rhodes has been awarded the California State University Distinguished Teaching Award, ASU's Dean's Quality Teaching Award, Outstanding Thesis Director from the Barrett Honors College, and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Extended Education. She is a member of the Arizona/International Women's Forum and a Renaissance Weekend invitee. The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award is for U.S. multicultural writers, to 'promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multicultural work'.; Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality.