Kenneth McClane is the author of seven books of poetry and two volumes of personal essays, Walls: Essays 1985–1990 (2010) and Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History (2009), both published by the University of Notre Dame Press. He is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Literature Emeritus at Cornell University, where he taught English and creative writing for thirty-seven years. He is busily completing a new book of essays, tentatively titled Truth and Lies.
Nonfiction
Jan/Feb 2016
Sparrow Needy
I had a brother, and that says it all. — From a conversation overheard on a New York City bus When I was growing up in Harlem, there was a […]