Blackbird ArchiveJeffrey Blount
Jeffrey Blount is the author of three novels: The Emancipation of Evan Walls (Koehler Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 Readers’ Favorite Book Award, American Bookfest Best Book Award, and Shelf Unbound Notable Book Award; Hating Heidi Foster (self-published, 2012), winner of the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Book Award for young adult literature; Almost Snow White (Alluvion Press, 2013), winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards. He is also an Emmy award-winning television director and a 2016 inductee to the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. Commenting on issues of race, social justice, and writing, Blount has been a contributor for The Washington Post , HuffPost , theGrio , and other publications.
A contributor page profiling novelist and television director Jeffrey Blount.
FeaturesLarry I. PalmerA contributor page profiling writer and retired law professor Larry I. Palmer, author of the memoir Scholarship Boy.
Features“A Conversation between Larry I. Palmer and Jeffrey Blount”A page introducing a conversation between Larry I. Palmer and Jeffrey Blount about Palmer's memoir on family, race, and education.
FeaturesA Reading from ‘Scholarship Boy’A page introducing a reading by Larry I. Palmer from his memoir Scholarship Boy.