Author Pages | Frank B. Wilderson, III
Biography
Frank B. Wilderson,
III is the author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (South End Press) and Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms (Duke University Press), and the director of Reparations...Now, a film in progress. A critically-acclaimed scholar and artist, Wilderson's writing has garnered numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Judith Stronach Award for Poetry, the Loft-McKnight Award for Best Prose in the State of Minnesota, the Maya Angelou Award for Best Fiction Portraying the Black Experience in America, the Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement of the Highest Order, the Crothers Short Story Award, and the Jerome
Foundation Artists and Writers Award. In 2008 Incognegro won the American Book Award. Wilderson teaches African American studies and drama
at the University of California, Irvine.
Listen to his NPR interview, “A Tale Told From Inside South Africa’s ANC,” NPR News & Notes, January 6, 2009
Wilderson can also be seen speaking on literary activism at the National Black Writers' Conference in March 2010, which was filmed by C-Span's BookTV.
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