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Gender
Male
Birthday
August 12 1984
Location
Dallas, TX
About Me
W.E.B Dubois Honor Graduate in English from Jackson State University, Master's in English from Tennessee State University, featured in The BASU Source, Nashville's leading Black LGBT Publication, Examiner.com Nashville, awarded iUniverse's prestigious "Editor’s Choice" honor for his debut novel, To Be Loved; was also a reader at the 2011 UNC Queer Studies Conference in April of 2011; originally from Vicksburg, Mississippi, and currently lives in Dallas, Texas with his partner of 5 years.
Type of Writer
African American Gay fiction
Writing Style
a mix of Toni Morrison, E. Lynn Harris, and James Baldwin with a tragic underscoring of Shakespeare.
Interests
music (neo-soul, smooth jazz, music of the 1930-1950s, classical, and R&B), novel (thought-provoking, real, raw, witty, abstract, entertaining, emotionally charged), socializing, traveling, anything fun.
Website / Homepage
www.jrdewesse.weebly.com
My Blog
www.jrdbrokensilence.blogspot.com
Favorite Genres
gay fiction, literary fiction, science fiction
Favorite Books
The Help, Invisible Life, Paradise, The Blacker the Berry, The Coldest Winter Ever, Sula, Abide With Me, The Complete Persepolis
Favorite Authors
E. Lynn Harris, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Charles Chestnutt
Favorite Poets
Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Claude Mckay, Langston Hughes
Favorite Quote
"Life is but player that struts and frets his our on the stage ...." -Shakespeare "Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need" -Lauryn Hill
Favorite Music
Musiq Soulchild, Lauryn Hill, D'angelo, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Glenn Miller, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder
Favorite Movies
An Imitation of Life, The Devil Wears Prada, The Help, Love Jones, Jason's Lyric
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