PAULE MARSHALL: A Writer’s Life (Black Lives) by Mary Helen Washington, #BlackLivesYale series / Yale University Press
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Design & illustrations: #HenrySeneYee;
AD: Dustin Kilgore
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An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora

JERMAIN WESLEY LOGUEN: Defiant Fugitive (Black Lives) by Angela F. Murphy, #BlackLivesYale series / Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social

Design: #HenrySeneYee
AD: Dustin Kilgore
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Escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, famously known as the “King of the Underground Railroad”

JIM: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, #BlackLivesYale series / Yale University Press
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Design: #HenrySeneYee;
AD: Dustin Kilgore
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❌ #rejectedcovers
The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure

#HuckleberryFinn

ROBERT WEDDERBURN: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist by Ryan Hanley, #BlackLivesYale series / Yale University Press @yalebooks
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Design: #HenrySeneYee;
AD: Dustin Kilgore @dustin__kilgore
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#RobertWedderburn #ryanhanley #bookcoverdesign #bookcover

BIGGER: A Literary Life by Trudier Harris, #BlackLivesYale series / Yale University Press
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Design: #HenrySeneYee;
AD: Dustin Kilgore
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❌ #outtakes #killedconcept #rejectedcovers
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#BiggerThomas #TrudierHarris #richardWright #nativeSon #bookcoverdesign