Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Dolen Perkins-Valdez ("Take My Hand") w/Holly Smith:
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Fiction
Gertrude Stein Pavilion
Dolen Perkins-Valdez presents her new novel of historical fiction, "Take My Hand." The book exposes a dark episode in American history, telling the story of the U.S. government's failure to protect thousands of poor, Black, and mentally challenged girls and women from unconsented surgical sterilization.
interviewed by Holly Smith
Fiction
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Latest Title: Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of The New York Times best-selling novel, “Wench.” Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, StorySouth and elsewhere. In 2011, she was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction. She was also awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Dolen received a D.C. Commission on the Arts Grant for her second novel, “Balm.”
Dolen teaches in the Stonecoast M.F.A. program in Maine. A graduate of Harvard and a former University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, Dolen lives in Washington, D.C., with her family.
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- Perkins-Valdez, Dolen appears on:
- 2023_MD_WWC_P11_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Lunch: Award to David O. Stewart, Dolen Perkins-Valdez in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick
- 2022_DC_NBF_DPV_220903 Natl Book Festival 2022 -- Dolen Perkins-Valdez on Her New Novel "Take My Hand"
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