Books by William Melvin Kelley
“This follows a character called Ludlow Washington, a blind horn player during the Jazz Era. He starts in a fictional town in the Deep South, then on to New York, where he makes his name. It’s a real landmark book, I think. It was first released in the 1960s and re-released recently, but in the interim period it was somewhat overlooked.” Read more...
Tom Newlands, Novelist
Interviews where books by William Melvin Kelley were recommended
Coming of Age Novels, recommended by Tom Newlands
Adolescence is an “electrifying” time of self-definition, explains the award-winning novelist Tom Newlands. Here he recommends five of the best ‘coming of age’ novels that capture the porosity and potential of those vivid teenage years when everything, just everything, seems possible.
