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Yaa Gyasi

Author

Bio

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her debut novel, Homegoing, won her the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” honors for 2016, and the American Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.

Yaa Gyasi Books

Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick book cover

Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick

Yaa Gyasi
Fight of the Century book cover

Fight of the Century

Michael Chabon
Homegoing book cover

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi
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