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David Wright Falade
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David Wright Falade

How to pronounce David Wright Falade: fuh-LAHD-ay

David Wright Falade Biography

David Wright Faladé is a professor of English at the University of Illinois A former Fulbright Fellow to Brazil, David Wright Faladé is the 2021-22 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow of the NY Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers. His work has been recognized by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Texas Institute of Letters. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.

Wright Faladé is the co-author of the young adult novel Away Running and the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. He has written for the New Yorker, the Village Voice, the Southern Review, Newsday, and more.

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