Pinckney, Darryl.

Pinckney, Darryl; African American novelists; American novelists; High Cotton (Book); African American literature

An encyclopedia entry about novelist and literary critic Darryl Pinckney is presented. He became popular with the release of his semiautobiographical novel "High Cotton." He grew up in suburbia in a well-to-do family. His tours of New York brought him into comical encounters with everything that is noble or farcical within contemporary African American culture.