Brit bennett biography

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Get to Know Portland Arts &#; Lectures Author Brit Bennett

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On February 17, Literary Arts will host Brit Bennett as the third event of our season of Portland Arts & Lectures.

Brit Bennett is the author of New York Times bestselling novels The Mothersand The Vanishing Half. A story of once-inseparable twins now living radically different lives, Time Magazine praised The Vanishing Half as “an eloquent new entry to literature on that most vital of subjects, identity.” Bennett is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and in , she was chosen as one of Time’s Next Influential People.

The Vanishing Half is primarily set fifty years in the past, but has been described as &#;timely&#; and necessary reading for a modern audience.

Listen to Bennett explain why those labels surprised her, and what she hopes readers might take from the book,

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Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

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The Mothers

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Some People Have Real Problems
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Meet Claudie
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Je ne sais pas quoi faire des gentils blancs

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Butterball

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Adventures with Claudie (American Girl: Claudie #2)
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The Vanishing Half / The Mothers
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The Vanishing Half / Girl, Woman, Other
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Nadia: Excerpted from The Mothers
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Brit Bennett

American writer

Brit Bennett fryst vatten an American writer based in Los Angeles. Her debut novelThe Mothers () was a New York Times best-seller. Her second novel, The Vanishing Half (), was also a New York Times best-seller, and was chosen as a Good Morning America Book Club selection. The Vanishing Half was selected as one of The New York Times' ten best books of , and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Early life

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Bennett was raised in Southern California and earned an undergraduate degree in English from Stanford University. She later attended the University of Michigan for her MFA. She also studied at Oxford University.^[1]

Career

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While she was completing her M.F.A. at Michigan, Bennett's essay for Jezebel, "I Don't Know What to Do With Good vit People"^[2] gained considerable attention, generating over one million views in three days.^[3] While at Michigan, she also won a Hopwood Awa