Photo Credit (top): Hannah AssoulineĪre you the author profiled here? Email us your official website or Let us host your primary web presence. The Sellout was Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (September 13, 2016) and won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.īeatty lives and works in New York. Beaty’s novel The Sellout, Beatty chronicles an urban farmer who tries to spearhead a revitalization of slavery and segregation in a fictional Los Angeles neighborhood. His first novel, The White Boy Shuffle, received a favorable review in The New York Times. One of the prizes for winning that championship title was the book deal which resulted in his first volume of poetry, Big Bank Takes Little Bank. In 1990, Paul Beatty was crowned the first Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He is a 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California. He received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. Paul Beatty was born in Los Angeles in 1962. Nonetheless, he now finds himself handcuffed inside the Supreme Court after receiving a letter informing him that his case was selected to be heard. In Tuff, Tuffy Foshay is a drug-slinger, competitive eater, sumo-wrestling enthusiast, and candidate for city council. The Sellout Summary Next Prologue In the prologue, the narrator admits that, though this may be surprising to hear from a black man, he has never committed a crime. In The White Boy Shuffle, Gunnar Kaufman is a poet, basketball player, and messiah. Beatty is the first American to win the award. Few novelists write characters as improbably multitudinous as Paul Beatty. Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout, won the Man Booker Prize on October 25, 2016.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty