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James Forman, Jr.

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American author and professor

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1967 · age 59
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James Forman Jr. is an American legal scholar currently on leave from serving as the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. C.

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2023Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2018Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
2018Lillian Smith Book Award

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James Forman Jr. is an American legal scholar currently on leave from serving as the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and a co-founder of the Maya Angelou School in Washington, D.C.

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