I'm Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Emerita Professor of English, African-American Studies, and Professor of Law at Duke University. My classrooms and scholarship focused on literature, law, and bioethics. In 2017 I turned my full attention to writing fiction (and tweeting -> @ProfHolloway).
In 2019 Triquarterly published my debut literary fiction, A DEATH IN HARLEM. a mystery set during the Harlem Renaissance.
GONE MISSING IN HARLEM (2021), my "sophomore" novel about memory, mothering and resilience, bridges the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Depression. Weldon Thomas, NYC's first colored policeman, returns to solve the mystery of a Harlem baby whose disappearance fails to engage the same energies and interest as the contemporaneous Lindbergh kidnapping.
I'm now captivated by the (haunting) intrigue of a new "...in Harlem" story. Stay tuned!
"But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." -Toni Morrison
In 2019 Triquarterly published my debut literary fiction, A DEATH IN HARLEM. a mystery set during the Harlem Renaissance.
GONE MISSING IN HARLEM (2021), my "sophomore" novel about memory, mothering and resilience, bridges the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Depression. Weldon Thomas, NYC's first colored policeman, returns to solve the mystery of a Harlem baby whose disappearance fails to engage the same energies and interest as the contemporaneous Lindbergh kidnapping.
I'm now captivated by the (haunting) intrigue of a new "...in Harlem" story. Stay tuned!
"But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." -Toni Morrison
