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Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is an American writer and historian.


Life

Rhodes-Pitts is from Houston, Texas, graduated from Harvard and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom. Her work has appeared in ''
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'', '' Harper's'', ''
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'', and ''
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'' among other publications. She won a
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award wa ...
for non-fiction in 2006, and has received awards from the
Lannan Foundation The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...
, and the
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. She won a 2012 Whiting Award.


''Harlem Is Nowhere''

Her 2011 book, ''Harlem Is Nowhere'', is the first part of a planned trilogy on African Americans and
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. The following books in the trilogy will concern Haiti and the Southern United States. ''Harlem Is Nowhere'' was named among 100 Notable Books of 2011 by ''The New York Times Book Review'' and nominated for a
National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".Transition'' magazine. It was shortlisted for the 2012
Dolman Best Travel Book Award The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards celebrate the best travel writing and travel writers in the world. The awards include the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing ...
.


Bibliography

*2011 – ''Harlem Is Nowhere'' (
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/ Granta Books)


References


External links


Official website

Profile at The Whiting Foundation
* Parul Sehgal

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'', December 6, 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa Harvard University alumni 21st-century American historians Living people People from Houston Year of birth missing (living people) American women historians Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners 21st-century American women writers Historians from Texas