NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH is the New York Times-otè ki pi vann Vandredi Nwa. Orijinèlman soti nan Spring Valley, New York, li gradye nan SUNY Albany epi li te resevwa MFA li nan Syracuse University. Travay li parèt oswa pral parèt nan plizyè piblikasyon, enkli the The New York Times Book Review, Esquir, Sant Literè, The Paris Review, Gènik, ak Lekti long. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees, is a winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and Saroyan Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel (Pantheon) is his latest book.