Paul BeattyThe LA-born author of The Sellout is the first American writer to receive the Man Booker Prize, which he did for that novel. He also received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2016 and was the Grand Poetry Slam Champion in 990. He has written three other novels, White Boy Shuffle, Tuff, and Slumberland, and edited Hokum, an anthology of African-American humor. Beatty is currently a professor at Columbia University. Read More Read Less