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Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother, Scenes of Subjection. She has been a MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother, Scenes of Subjection. She has been a MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Awards

Winner — Organization of American Historians Mary Nickliss Prize, 2020

Shortlisted — Lambda Literary Award, 2020

Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2019

Winner — Publishing Triangle Award, 2020

Winner — Lionel Trilling Book Award, 2020

Winner — American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2020

Winner — American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Prize, 2020

Shortlisted — Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, 2020

Commended — Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize, 2019

Shortlisted — James Tait Black Prize, 2020

Winner — PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, 2021

Books by Saidiya Hartman