Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author portrait
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Take My Hand (2022), which was awarded an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and a Fiction award from the Black Caucus American Library Association, and was long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. A three-time nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship, Dolen is widely considered a preeminent chronicler of American historical life.
Happy Land
Take My Hand

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Happy Land
Take My Hand

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Tue Apr 22 | 07:00 PM
Cuyahoga Public Library South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch
1876 S Green Road
Euclid, OH 44121
Google Map

Sat May 10
Hill Prince
1337 H Street Northeast
Washington, DC 20002
Google Map

Sat May 31
GREEDY READS LLC
320 W 29TH ST
BALTIMORE, MD 21211-2909
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