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Paul Beatty (born 1962 in Los Angeles) is a contemporary American author. Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. He is a 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California. In 1990, Paul Beatty was crowned the first ever Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.〔Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008) ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' Soft Skull Press. Page 45. ISBN 1-933368-82-9.〕 One of the prizes for winning that championship title was the book deal which resulted in his first volume of poetry, ''Big Bank Takes Little Bank''.〔Aptowicz, Page 46.〕 This was followed by another book of poetry ''Joker, Joker, Deuce'' and appearances performing his poetry on MTV and PBS (in the series ''The United States of Poetry'').〔Aptowicz, Page 80.〕 In 1993, he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. His first novel, ''The White Boy Shuffle'' received a positive review in ''The New York Times'', the reviewer, Richard Bernstein, called the book "a blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life."〔("Black Poet's First Novel Aims the Jokes Both Ways", ''The New York Times'' ) 31 May 1996.〕 His second book, ''Tuff'' received a positive notice in ''Time Magazine''.〔("Tuff", ''Time Magazine'' ) 1 May 2000.〕 In 2006, Beatty edited an anthology of African-American humor called ''Hokum'' and wrote an article in ''The New York Times'' on the same subject.〔("Black Humor", ''The New York Times'' ) 22 January 2006.〕 His 2008 novel ''Slumberland'' was about an American DJ in Berlin. In ''The Sellout'', released in 2015, Beatty returned to Los Angeles, to a fictional neighborhood called Dickens, for this novel about an urban farmer who tries to spearhead a return to slavery and segregation. '' ==Novels== * ''The White Boy Shuffle'' (1996) ISBN 0-312-28019-X * ''Tuff'' (2000) Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0-375-40122-9 * ''Slumberland'' (2008) * ''The Sellout'' (2015) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Beatty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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