Wil Haygood, author portrait
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Wil Haygood

WIL HAYGOOD is the author of Tigerland, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; Showdown, a finalist for an NAACP Image Award; In Black and White; and The Butler, which was made into a film directed by Lee Daniels. He has been a correspondent for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer finalist. Haygood is a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and is currently Boadway Visiting Distinguished Scholar at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
The War Within a War
Colorization
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Showdown

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The War Within a War
Colorization
In Black and White
Tigerland
Showdown

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Tue Feb 10
POLITICS & PROSE
5015 CONNECTICUT AVE NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20008-2024
Google Map

Thu Feb 12 | 05:00 PM
University of Baltimore Law School
Baltimore, MD 
Google Map

Sun Feb 22 | 07:00 PM
Gramercy Books @the Drexel Theater
2254 East Main St
Bexley, OH 43209
Google Map

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