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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American author renowned for his book, Friday Black. His writings have been featured in various publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer’s Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review. His piece in The Blackwater Review was chosen by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. Hailing from Spring Valley, New York, Adjei-Brenyah attended SUNY Albany for his undergraduate studies before earning his MFA from Syracuse University. He later became the Olive B. O’Connor fellow in fiction at Colgate University. His debut book, Friday Black, received significant acclaim, being named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah became a published novelist in 1133 with the novel The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy). Below is a list of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

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Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

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Friday Black (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of The New Middle Ages Books

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The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (By: Betty Radice,Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,M.T. Clanchy) (1133) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Women in the Medieval Islamic World (By: Gavin R.G. Hambly) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard,Constant J. Mews,Neville Chiavaroli) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics (By: Gregory B. Stone) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition (By: Sherry J. Mou) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers (By: Barbara Stevenson,Cynthia Ho,T. Takamiya) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (By: Mary Dockray-Miller) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (By: Pamela Sheingorn) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture (By: Stewart Gordon) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc (By: Maud Burnett McInerney) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages (By: Laurel Amtower) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Joan of Arc and Spirituality (By: Ann W. Astell,Bonnie Wheeler) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Capetian Women (By: Kathleen D. Nolan) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image (By: Emma Campbell,Robert Mills) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Chaucer's Jobs (By: David R. Carlson) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages (By: John R. Holmes,Jane Chance,Alfred Siewers) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity (By: John M. Ganim) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Queer Love in the Middle Ages (By: Anna Klosowska) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England (By: David Gary Shaw) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric (By: Denise K. Filios) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Medieval Paradigms: 2 Volume Set: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams (By: Stephanie Hayes-Healy) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Queering Medieval Genres (By: Tison Pugh) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode (By: Elizabeth Allen) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (By: Michael Uebel) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages (By: Valerie Allen) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays (By: Lawrence L. Besserman) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Medieval Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement (By: Patricia Ranft) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
My Quest for the Middle Ages (By: Jacques Le Goff) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages (By: Erin L. Jordan) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (By: Cary Howie) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema (By: Lynn T. Ramey,T. Pugh) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus (By: Gretchen Mieszkowski) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Women and the Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity (By: Sarah S. Poor,Jana K. Schulman) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature (By: Jeremy J. Citrome) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages (By: Noah D. Guynn) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles (By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges (By: Marìa Bullòn-Fernandez) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (By: Jane Chance) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature (By: Scott Lightsey) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature (By: Michelle M. Hamilton) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion (By: Hildegard of Bingen,Sarah L. Higley) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. St (By: Phil Williams) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer (By: Robert R. Edwards) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies (By: Celia Chazelle,Felice Lifshitz) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (By: Eileen A. Joy,Myra J. Seaman,Kimberly K. Bell,Mary K. Ramsey) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood (By: Holly A. Crocker) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (By: Martha Dana Rust) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava (By: Elizabeth Anne Drayson) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature (By: Tison Pugh) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Langland's Early Modern Identities (By: Sarah A. Kelen) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process (By: Albrecht Classen) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (By: Lisa H. Cooper,A. Denny-Brown) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (By: Emily C. Francomano) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period (By: Don J. Wyatt) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past (By: Giles Tremlett,David Coleman,Simon R. Doubleday) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England (By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics (By: Susan Signe Morrison) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade (By: Matthew Gabriele,J. Stuckey) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature (By: Kathleen E. Kennedy) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Storytelling in Organizations: From Theory to Empirical Research (By: Kenneth A. Loparo) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Bonnie Wheeler,Mary Martin McLaughlin) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (By: Mary Catherine Davidson) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media (By: Brantley L. Bryant) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Margaret Paston’s Piety (By: Joel T. Rosenthal) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis (By: Theresa Tinkle) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature (By: Roger A. Ladd) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Fairies in Medieval Romance (By: James Wade) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Lesbian Premodern (By: Diane Watt,Noreen Giffney,Michelle M. Sauer) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (By: Tory Vandeventer Pearman) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Outlawry in Medieval Literature (By: Timothy Scott Jones) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (By: Miriamne Ara Krummel) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (By: Sharon Aronson-Lehavi) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent (By: Shennan Hutton) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays (By: Raeleen Chai-Elsholz,Leo Carruthers,Tatjana Silec) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion (By: Mary Hayes) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany (By: Jerold C. Frakes) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy (By: Jeff Rider,Jamie Friedman) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman (By: M.C. Bodden) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center (By: Linda Tarte Holley) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds (By: Lesley Kordecki) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Interarts Theory (By: Claire Barbetti) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse (By: Jerold C. Frakes) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past (By: Tison Pugh,Susan Aronstein) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women (By: Margaret Cotter-Lynch,B. Herzog) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia (By: Gregory B. Milton) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD (By: Nizar F. Hermes) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Medieval Wild Man (By: Stock Lorraine Kochanske) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives (By: Sally A. Livingston) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones (By: Robert F. Yeager,Toshiyuki Takamiya) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance (By: Robert Grudin,Michaela Paasche Grudin) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Studies in the Medieval Atlantic (By: Benjamin Hudson) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales (By: John A. Pitcher) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (By: Ernest E. Jenkins) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades (By: Myra Miranda Bom) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300 - 1600 (By: Katherine H. Terrell,Joanna M. Martin,Mark Paul Bruce) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Shame and Guilt in Chaucer (By: Anne McTaggart) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah (By: Marla Segol) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (By: Kenneth A. Loparo) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender (By: Robin Waugh) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World (By: Maggie M. Williams) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (By: Gail Ashton,Daniel T. Kline) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation (By: Brooke Heidenreich Findley) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise (By: Héloïse d'Argenteuil,Pierre Abélard) (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

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Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

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