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Darryl Pickney

Darryl Pinckney is an American novelist and playwright. He has written the books Black Deutschland and High Cotton, as well as the plays The Forest and Orlando. Pinckney also regularly contributes work to The New York Review of Books, Granta, and Slate. He lives with his partner, James Fenton, in New York City and Oxfordshire, England.

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