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Kevin Young was born on 8 November, 1970 in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S., is a Writer (born 1970). Discover Kevin Young's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

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Occupation Poet professor editor literary critic
Age 53 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 8 November 1970
Birthday 8 November
Birthplace Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1970

Kevin Young (born November 8, 1970) is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021.

Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.

1992

He graduated in 1992, then held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University (1992–94), where he worked with Denise Levertov.

He received his Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, where Michael S. Harper served as a significant influence.

While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group the Dark Room Collective.

He is heavily influenced by the poets Langston Hughes, John Berryman, and Emily Dickinson and by the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Young wrote much of his debut collection, Most Way Home, while still an undergraduate.

1995

Published by William Morrow in 1995, Most Way Home was selected by Lucille Clifton for the National Poetry Series and won Ploughshares' John C. Zacharis First Book Award.

Writing in Ploughshares, Rob Arnold observes that in that first book Young "explores his own family's narratives, showing an uncanny awareness of voice and persona."

Young has described his next three books – To Repel Ghosts (named for a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting), Jelly Roll (a collection of love poems named for Jelly Roll Morton), and Black Maria – as an "American trilogy", calling the series Devil's Music.

Young is also the author of For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness, Blues Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995–2015 (2016) and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), Blues Poems (2003), Jazz Poems (2006), and John Berryman's Selected Poems (2004).

2003

A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Award for his 2003 collection Jelly Roll: A Blues, Young was Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and curator of Emory's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library.

His 2003 book of poems Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Young was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2003, as well as an NEA Literature Fellow in Poetry.

After stints at the University of Georgia and Indiana University, Young taught writing at Emory University, where he was the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing, as well as the curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a large collection of first and rare editions of poetry in English.

2005

His poem "Black Cat Blues," originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, was included in The Best American Poetry 2005.

Young's poetry has also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and other literary magazines.

He married Kate Tuttle, book columnist at The Boston Globe in 2005.

2007

In 2007, he served as guest editor for an issue of Ploughshares.

He has written on art and artists for museums in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

2014

Young's collection The Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014) won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

2016

In September 2016, Young became the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.

2017

In March 2017, Young was named poetry editor of The New Yorker.

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young was the only child of two working parents, his father, Dr. Paul E. Young, was an ophthalmologist and his mother, Dr. Azzie Young, a chemist.

Due to the careers of both of his parents, his family moved frequently throughout his youth.

Young lived in six different places before he reached the age of ten, but his family ultimately settled in Topeka, Kansas.

He first began to pursue writing when he was thirteen years old, after he attended a summer writing class at Washburn University.

Young attended Harvard College, where he studied with Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido and became friends with writer Colson Whitehead.

In March 2017, he was named poetry editor of The New Yorker, to begin in November 2017.

Young is working on two books: a non-fiction book called Bunk on the U.S. history of lies and hoaxes, and a poetry collection that he has described as being "about African American history and also personal history, growing up in Kansas, which has a long black history including Langston Hughes and others."

2020

In September 2020, he was named director of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, to begin in January 2021.

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Society of American Historians,Young was also named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.

Young lives in New York.