HomeGroupsTalkZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Roxane Gay

Author of Bad Feminist: Essays

Includes the names: Roxane Gay, Roxanne Gay, Roxanne Gay, ロクサーヌ ゲイ
Also includes: R. Gay (1)

MembersReviewsPopularityRatingFavorited   Events   
8,855 (11,169)4872,598 (3.99)16
Roxane Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: Essays, the novel An Untamed State, the story collection Ayiti, and her memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Her work has also appeared in Glamour, Best American Short Stories, and the New York Times Book Review. She won the PEN Center USA's 2015 Freedom to Write Award. The annual award is presented to individuals or organisations for 'producing notable work in the face of extreme adversity' or showing 'exceptional courage in the defense of free expression. In 2018, she was presented the Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature by the Lambda Literery Awards. She also won the Bisexual Nonfiction award for her memoir Hunger. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Bad Feminist: Essays… (more)
Bad Feminist: Essays 3,014 copies, 131 reviews
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 1,976 copies, 111 reviews
Difficult Women 1,068 copies, 40 reviews
An Untamed State 920 copies, 47 reviews
Ayiti 344 copies, 13 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2018 (Editor) 227 copies, 2 reviews
Black Panther: World of Wakanda 222 copies, 9 reviews
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (Editor) 136 copies, 2 reviews
The Sacrifice of Darkness 80 copies, 8 reviews
Graceful Burdens 56 copies, 10 reviews
The Banks (Writer) 54 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2012 (Contributor) 335 copies, 7 reviews
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World (Contributor) 246 copies, 13 reviews
Kink: Stories (Contributor) 158 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (Contributor) 91 copies, 3 reviews
Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them (Contributor) 66 copies, 3 reviews
Best Lesbian Erotica 2002 (Contributor) 65 copies, 1 review
Best Bisexual Women's Erotica (Contributor) 62 copies
2014 (36) 2015 (51) 2017 (77) 2018 (48) adult (47) African American (42) American literature (49) anthology (163) audiobook (57) autobiography (37) body image (50) ebook (141) erotica (76) essays (472) feminism (526) feminist (39) fiction (416) gender (62) goodreads (51) graphic novel (58) Haiti (65) Kindle (133) lesbian (53) memoir (304) non-fiction (759) own (35) politics (44) pop culture (73) race (53) rape (106) read (106) read in 2017 (50) read in 2018 (49) short stories (359) signed (37) to-read (1,686) unread (70) USA (41) women (94) women's studies (39)
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical name
Legal name
Other names
Date of birth
Date of death
Burial location
Gender
Nationality
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Place of death
Cause of death
Places of residence
Education
Occupations
Relationships
Agents
Organizations
Awards and honors
Short biography
Disambiguation notice

LibraryThing Early Reviewers Alum

Roxane Gay's book Haiti Noir 2: The Classics was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

Roxane Gay's book Hint Fiction was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

Member ratings

Average: (3.99)
0.5 1
1 25
1.5 4
2 97
2.5 21
3 357
3.5 104
4 863
4.5 99
5 655

Improve this author

Combine/separate works

Author division

Roxane Gay is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.

Includes

Roxane Gay is composed of 6 names. You can examine and separate out names.

Combine with…

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 188,584,651 books! | Top bar: Always visible