Paul Beatty is First American Booker Prize Winner

Paul Beatty has become the first American author to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction with his novel The Sellout . Beatty’s novel is narrated by an African-American character who is being tried in the Supreme Court for attempting to reinstitute slavery and segregation. The story features many outlandish characters that lampoon racial stereotypes…

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