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.
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 in my "sophomore" novel about memory, mothering and resilience. GONE MISSING IN HARLEM (2021) bridges the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Depression.
Currently, I'm captivated by the (haunting) intrigue of a new "...in Harlem" story, and another that keeps nagging at me about the Supreme Court and members of elderly book-club with particularly "intimate" ties to one of the justices. Stay tuned!
February 2022 concludes the series of fabulous Zoom conversations I've had with bookclubs, sororities, and other organizations that have kindly invited me and my novels in for intimate and lovely conversations. Please accept my sincere thanks to all who've engaged my work as I return to the claim of that infamous Twitter hashtag: #amwriting!
"But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." -Toni Morrison
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 in my "sophomore" novel about memory, mothering and resilience. GONE MISSING IN HARLEM (2021) bridges the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Depression.
Currently, I'm captivated by the (haunting) intrigue of a new "...in Harlem" story, and another that keeps nagging at me about the Supreme Court and members of elderly book-club with particularly "intimate" ties to one of the justices. Stay tuned!
February 2022 concludes the series of fabulous Zoom conversations I've had with bookclubs, sororities, and other organizations that have kindly invited me and my novels in for intimate and lovely conversations. Please accept my sincere thanks to all who've engaged my work as I return to the claim of that infamous Twitter hashtag: #amwriting!
"But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." -Toni Morrison
