Please join us for a Q & A session with Kevin Young in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 4

Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the New Yorker poetry editor and author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, most recently Brown, a New York Times Notable Book. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Young’s nonfiction, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, was longlisted for the National Book Award. Named University Distinguished Professor at Emory University, Young was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.