Male |
August 12 1984 |
Dallas, TX |
W.E.B Dubois Honor Graduate in English from Jackson State University, Master's in English from Tennessee State University, featured in The BASU Source, Nashville's leading Black LGBT Publication, Examiner.com Nashville, awarded iUniverse's prestigious "Editor’s Choice" honor for his debut novel, To Be Loved; was also a reader at the 2011 UNC Queer Studies Conference in April of 2011; originally from Vicksburg, Mississippi, and currently lives in Dallas, Texas with his partner of 5 years. |
African American Gay fiction |
a mix of Toni Morrison, E. Lynn Harris, and James Baldwin with a tragic underscoring of Shakespeare. |
music (neo-soul, smooth jazz, music of the 1930-1950s, classical, and R&B), novel (thought-provoking, real, raw, witty, abstract, entertaining, emotionally charged), socializing, traveling, anything fun. |
www.jrdewesse.weebly.com |
www.jrdbrokensilence.blogspot.com |
gay fiction, literary fiction, science fiction |
The Help, Invisible Life, Paradise, The Blacker the Berry, The Coldest Winter Ever, Sula, Abide With Me, The Complete Persepolis |
E. Lynn Harris, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Charles Chestnutt |
Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Claude Mckay, Langston Hughes |
"Life is but player that struts and frets his our on the stage ...." -Shakespeare "Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need" -Lauryn Hill |
Musiq Soulchild, Lauryn Hill, D'angelo, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Glenn Miller, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder |
An Imitation of Life, The Devil Wears Prada, The Help, Love Jones, Jason's Lyric |