![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I tend to like underappreciated characters: you think you see one thing, you might be seeing something else. But the real seed for the book was the character of Hominy. I have a pretty good sense of direction, although I don’t know how I’m going to get there. I was asking myself: how do you segregate something without having any power? I was intrigued to try to figure it out. I started with the idea of rendering segregation in a contemporary context. When you started The Sellout, to what extent did you know where you were going with it? He lives in New York and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he became the first American to win the Booker prize with his fourth novel, The Sellout, a coruscating bestseller about race relations in the US. He started his writing career as a poet and has edited Hokum, a study in African American humour. He studied psychology at Boston University and received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College. P aul Beatty was born in Los Angeles in 1962. ![]()
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