Description
A Drop of Patience is a brilliant portrayal of a jazz musician. It stands apart as an exemplary parable of African American history, of racial politics, and of musical creative genius.
Author: William Melvin Kelley
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 06/30/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781984899316
ISBN10: 1984899317
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American & Black | General
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY was born in New York City in 1937 and attended the Fieldston School and Harvard. The author of four novels and a short story collection, he was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and taught at The New School and Sarah Lawrence College. He was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for lifetime achievement and the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing. He died in 2017. In 2014 Kelley was officially credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with coining the political term woke, in a 1962 New York Times article entitled If You're Woke You Dig It.