![]() In 1993, he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. This was followed by another book of poetry, Joker, Joker, Deuce (1994), and appearances performing his poetry on MTV and PBS (in the series The United States of Poetry). One of the prizes for winning the championship title was the book deal that resulted in his first volume of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank (1991). In 1990, Beatty was crowned the first ever Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He is a 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California.īeatty is married to filmmaker Althea Wasow, sister of BlackPlanet co-founder Omar Wasow. Beatty received an MFA degree in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA degree in psychology from Boston University. He was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1962. It was the first time a writer from the United States was honored with the Man Booker. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. ![]() Paul Beatty (born June 9, 1962) is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award 2016 Man Booker Prize ![]()
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