Biography of Paul Beatty

Most authors, when interviewed, will tell you that they wrote their book because creativity had been bubbling up inside them since childhood, and they had always known there was a novel within just struggling to get out. Others will tell you that...

A Bildungsroman (coming of age) story about a black boy growing up in America, The White Boy Shuffle is the debut novel of American author and poet Paul Beatty. Published in 1996, the book is acclaimed for its insight into African-American culture...