A.J. Verdelle, Author at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

A.J. Verdelle (A.J. Verdelle)

A.J. Verdelle is a novelist, essayist, teacher, and mom. Prizes for her fiction include: Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Whiting Writer’s Award, Los Angeles Times Fiction Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Finalist, the Lannan Foundation, and IMPAC/Dublin Fiction Finalist. A.J. Verdelle has taught undergraduates at Princeton University and graduate students in the MFA Programs at Vermont College and Lesley University (current). Verdelle’s essays are mostly about photography and photographs, published by the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Crown Books for the American Olympics Committee, and the Smithsonian Museum (Washington, DC). Verdelle’s first novel, The Good Negress (Harper/Algonquin) is currently in its sixteenth printing, having been continuously in print since 1995. The Good Negress has been adopted in college courses nationally. Verdelle’s second novel is under contract to Penguin/Putnam and will be released in 2010. Verdelle’s musings on motherhood can be found in the essay “Complex Mathematics,” in the book Rise Up Singing: Essays on Motherhood (Cecelie Berry, editor).

Adichie herself writes about Africa, or, about Africa in America. A conflagration of geographies that she subtly and heroically describes. New subjects in the here and now.

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