She’s a graduate of Howard University, University of Southern California and Columbia University. She has been featured in The Economist Magazine, NPR and Vogue Magazine, among others, for her work in advocacy for diverse children’s literature. Her first bookstore opened in Monrovia, Liberia in 2015.Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Guernica, The Atlantic Magazine and other publications. Organization that creates and distributes culturally relevant books for underrepresented readers. Moore is the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit The Dragons, The Giant, The Women was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book, Time Magazine 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020, Publishers Weekly Top 5 Nonfiction Books of 2020, was longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie medal for excellence in nonfiction, and is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Product Details Price 16.00 14.88 Publisher Graywolf Press Publish Date SeptemPages 312 Dimensions 5.5 X 8.1 X 0.9 inches 0. The novel was 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 Would Be King is a novel of profound depth set against a vast canvas and a transcendent debut from a major new author. She Would Be King was named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed.

She is the recipient of the 2019 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction. Her memoir, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women was also released with Graywolf on June 2, 2020. Wayétu Moore is the author of She Would Be King, released by Graywolf Press in September, 2018.

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