February 24

Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou (born February 24, 1966) Congolese novelist, poet – Petit Piment (2015)

Read about Alain Mabanckou here

Read a summary of Mabanckou's 2015 novel Petit Piment here

Watch Alain Mabanckou and Etgar Keret discuss their writing at the 2015 Edinburgh Book Festival
 here


Kasi Lemmons

Kasi Lemmons (born February 24, 1959) U.S. filmmaker, screenwriter – Eve’s Bayou (1997); Harriet (2019)

Read Kasi Lemmons' thoughts on making the film Harriet, about Harriet Tubman, here

Watch an interview of Kasi Lemmons at the 2019 London Film Festival
 here


Nicole Fleetwood

Nicole R. Fleetwood > (born February 24, 1973) U.S. writer, scholar, art critic - Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020)

Read about Nicole R. Fleetwood

Read about Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Nicole Fleetwood describes her book Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
FleetwoodYoutube here


Grant Allen

Grant Allen (born February 24, 1848) Canadian novelist, essayist, science fiction writer – The Woman Who Did (1895)

Read more about Grant Allen here