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Anthony Walton (born 1960) is an American poet and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of a chapbook of poems, Cricket Weather[1] and for his non-fiction work Mississippi: An American Journey. His work has appeared widely in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, and Rainbow Darkness. He is currently a professor and the writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.[2]

This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. (April 2015)

Early life

Walton grew up in Aurora, Illinois. He studied at the University of Notre Dame and received an M.F.A. from Brown University.[3]

Literary career

In 1989, Walton wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine, "Willie Horton and Me," concerning race issues of the time. Walton won a Whiting Award in 1998 in fiction.[4] He contributed to By J. Peder Zane's 2004 Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading (ISBN 0393325407).

Works

• Every Shut Eye Aint Asleep: Anthology Of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (Editor) 1994
• Cricket Weather 1995
• Go and Tell Pharaoh with Reverend Al Sharpton, 1996
• Mississippi: An American Journey 1997
• The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (Editor) 2002
• Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7679-0913-6

References

External links

• Official Website (under construction)
• Audio of Anthony Walton reading his poems
• Walton's 1989 essay, Willie Horton and Me
• Walton's 1999 essay, Technology vs. African Americans
• Walton's 2001 essay, To Be Led by a Teacher
• Walton's 2003 essay, With Freedom and Justice for All
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

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