Persia Walker, Author at Akashic Books

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VIRTUAL EVENT: Courttia Newland, Rivers Solomon, Denise Hamilton – Politics & Prose

4/11/21, 3:00pm

PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET). Courttia Newland, author of A River Called Time, and Rivers Solomon, author of Sorrowland, discuss their new works, in an event moderated by Denise Hamilton. Please register for this Zoom event via Eventbrite.

VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanny Vázquez Paz, Rigoberto González – American Writers Museum (Chicago, IL)

4/15/21, 7:30pm

PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET). Acclaimed writers Rigoberto González and Johanny Vázquez Paz read their work and discuss poetry and belonging in this installment of the Jean M. and John W. Rowe Program Series. González, the award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry and bilingual children’s book author, called Vázquez Paz’s collection I Offer My […]

Persia Walker

PERSIA WALKER is the author of the 1920s Jazz Age novels Harlem Redux, which the Boston Globe called “a full, vibrant portrait of that storied era when Harlem’s pulse was the rhythm of black America,” Darkness and the Devil Behind Me, and Black Orchid Blues. Her short story “Such A Lucky, Pretty Girl” appears in the anthology The Blue Religion. A native New Yorker fluent in German, she is a former news writer for the Associated Press.

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Black Orchid Blues

By: Persia Walker

Front Page meets Harlem Nights: a riveting and racy historical mystery set in 1920s Harlem.