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James Forman, Jr.

American author and professor · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1967 · age 59

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.

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2023Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAward2018Lillian Smith Book AwardAwardPulitzer Prize for General NonfictionAward1967Born22 June 1967

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2023
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction2018
Lillian Smith Book Award2018

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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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Born 1967 · age 59

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