Randall Kenan Author

Randall Kenan (1963-2020) was the former chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and a professor at the University of North Carolina. He lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina and his work brought into literary fiction the southern Black, gay experience, one of the few writers to do so. His work has won the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize, and he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and the Prix de Rome.