Brit Bennett

Author of The Vanishing Half

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Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her work is featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel. She has won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Brit is one of the National Book Foundation's 2016 5 Under 35 honorees. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Vanishing Half… (more)

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Works by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half 5,068 copies, 225 reviews

The Mothers 1,852 copies, 91 reviews

Meet Claudie (American Girl Historical Characters) 20 copies

Adventures with Claudie 7 copies

I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People 3 copies, 1 review

Some People Have Real Problems (Author) 1 copy

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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Contributor) 158 copies, 4 reviews

Can We All Be Feminists? (Contributor) 121 copies, 2 reviews

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