Randall Kenan was born on March 12, 1963. He is a beloved educator, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and editor. Randall Garrett Kenan was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the offspring of a young, unmarried couple with limited finances. Kenan’s parents accepted an offer from his paternal grandparents to raise him in rural North Carolina. Kenan’s great aunt took an intense interest in him, and he went off to live with her in Chinquapin, North Carolina, a town with fewer than a thousand people. The community later became the setting […]

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