Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Kevin Young: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  EncyclopƦdia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Also Known As Kevin Lowell Young
Born November 8, 1970 (age 56) ā€¢ Lincoln ā€¢ Nebraska
Notable Works ā€œArdency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebelsā€ ā€¢ ā€œBrownā€ ā€¢ ā€œDear Darknessā€ ā€¢ ā€œFor the Confederate Deadā€ ā€¢ ā€œJelly Roll: a bluesā€ ā€¢ ā€œMost Way Homeā€ ā€¢ ā€œTo Repel Ghosts (the double album)ā€
Movement / Style ā€œBook of Hoursā€

Photos

Kevin Young
National Museum of African American History and Culture
See All Images →
Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
American writer
August Wilson, 2003
August Wilson
American dramatist
Maria Stewart
Maria Stewart
American author
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Lonnie G. Bunch III
American museum director
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
American author
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Alex Haley
Alex Haley
American author
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Gil Scott-Heron sings into a microphone onstage before a large crowd, circa 1974, wearing a patterned shirt.
Gil Scott-Heron
American poet and musician
Solomon Northup: image from Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
Solomon Northup
American farmer and writer
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
Dr. Maya Angelou sits and smiles, wearing a black outfit, in a wooden chair at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and actress
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
American writer
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander
American poet and childrenā€™s author
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
Charlotte Forten GrimkƩ
Charlotte Forten GrimkƩ
American abolitionist and educator
Sapphire
Sapphire
American author
Frances E.W. Harper
Frances E.W. Harper
American author and social reformer
Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes
American author and poet