Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher: Free Press

Feb 15, 2010 - Author Robin D.G. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA. Kelley for Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press). Apr 15, 2010 - Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Robin D.G. Kelley, author Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original "Clarence Lusane is one of America's most thoughtful and critical thinkers on issues of race, class and power." —Manning Marable. Sep 26, 2010 - A few of the big winners: DeLillo takes the Saul Bellow award for Achievement in American Fiction. Oct 26, 2010 - Kelley is the author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class. Anne Carson wins for Robin D.G. The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Kelley, Michael Jackson: Before he was King by Todd Grey, and New American Table by Marcus Samuelsson. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Kelley spent 14 years working on a biography of Monk, now published as Thelonious Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original. Armstrong by Terry Teachout, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. A native of Alabama, Allen Tullos teaches American studies at Emory university. Kelley's Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original has been my reading companion for one year.