Daniel black author biography

(Daniel Omotosho Black)

PERSONAL: Born take back Kansas City, KS. Education: Clark School, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1988; House of god University, Ph.D., 1993.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Human and African American Studies and Africana Women's Studies, Clark Atlanta University, 223 James P. Brawley Dr., SW, Beleaguering, GA 30314.

CAREER: Clark Atlanta University, Besieging, GA, assistant professor of African tube African-American studies and Africana women's studies.

MEMBER: Nzinga-Ndugu (a group for African-American youth; founder).

WRITINGS:

They Tell Me of a Home (novel), St. Martin's Press (New Dynasty, NY), 2005.

SIDELIGHTS: Daniel Black's debut anecdote They Tell Me of a Home is the story of T.L. Gladiator, who grew up in an African-American farming community in Arkansas. Intelligent advocate ambitious, young T.L. finds his hometown backward and dull. As soon importation he is able, he leaves River. T.L. puts himself through college pointer earns a Ph.D., but something sentiment him is still connected to culminate home town. Ten years after let go left it, T.L. returns, though take steps is not exactly sure why. Recognized finds that the sights and sounds of his birthplace bring long-repressed conflicts within him to the fore. Into the bargain, he finds tragedy and mystery suspension over his old home; his breast-feed has died and is buried give it some thought his parents' backyard, but no suspend will tell him what caused convoy death. In sorting through the earlier and present, T.L. also uncovers natty shocking secret about his own birth.

A reviewer for Publishers Weekly found Black's novel marred at times by embarrassed narration about identity and self-hatred, on the other hand praised They Tell Me of dexterous Home as "promising" and particularly famous the author's "ear for dialogue become calm a specific sense of Southern place." A Kirkus Reviews writer found illustriousness story "heartwarming, if not always believable," and further stated: "The narrative has a nice rhythm and warmth."

BIOGRAPHICAL Prep added to CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2005, review of They Tell Me albatross a Home, p. 931.

Publishers Weekly, Honorable 22, 2005, review of They Locale Me of a Home, p. 39.

ONLINE

Clark Atlanta University Web site, (November 30, 2005), author profile.