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Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty (born June 9, 1962, in Los Angeles) is an American novelist and poet. He won the first Grand Slam Championship at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in 1990, which led to his first poetry collection, Big Bank Take Little Bank, followed by Joker, Joker, Deuce. He turned to fiction with the novels The White Boy Shuffle (1996), Tuff (2000), Slumberland (2008) and The Sellout (2015). The Sellout won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the 2016 Man Booker Prize, making Beatt...