Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Take My Hand (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2022). Her previous novels include Wench (2010) and Balm (2015). Dolen has written introductions to a special edition of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (2013), published by Simon & Schuster, as well as Elizabeth Keckly’s Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (2016). Dolen is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is associate professor in the Literature Department at American University in Washington, D.C.
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