Wayetu Moore

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 9 a.m.

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Way\\xe9tu Moore is the author of\\xa0The Dragons, The Giant, The Women, which was released in June 2020. Her debut novel, She Would Be King, was released in 2018 and named a best book of\\xa02018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed. The novel\\xa0was a Sarah Jessica Parker Book Club selection, a BEA Buzz Panel Book, a #1 Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award. She is the recipient of the 2019 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.

Moore is also the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit\\xa0organization that\\xa0creates and distributes culturally relevant books for underrepresented\\xa0readers. Her first bookstore opened in Monrovia, Liberia in 2015. Her\\xa0writing can be found in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Guernica,\\xa0The Atlantic Magazine\\xa0and other publications.\\xa0She has been featured in The Economist Magazine, NPR and Vogue Magazine, among others, for\\xa0her work in advocacy for diverse children\\u2019s literature.

She\\u2019s a\\xa0graduate of Howard University, University of Southern California and\\xa0Columbia University.\\xa0

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